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    Marxist-Leninism expanded Marxism by emphasizing Lenin's view of imperialism as capitalism's final stage and shifting revolutionary struggle to underdeveloped countries. It was adopted in countries like Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. While Lenin never used the terms "Leninism" or "Marxist-Leninism", his ideas diverged from classical Marxism in emphasizing imperialism as the reason revolutions had not occurred and in arguing that Russia's conditions were suitable for revolution despite being less developed. This led to a split in the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party between the Bolshevik and Menshevik factions over issues like party leadership, democratic process, and revolutionary strategy.

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    Marxist-Leninism expanded Marxism by emphasizing Lenin's view of imperialism as capitalism's final stage and shifting revolutionary struggle to underdeveloped countries. It was adopted in countries like Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. While Lenin never used the terms "Leninism" or "Marxist-Leninism", his ideas diverged from classical Marxism in emphasizing imperialism as the reason revolutions had not occurred and in arguing that Russia's conditions were suitable for revolution despite being less developed. This led to a split in the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party between the Bolshevik and Menshevik factions over issues like party leadership, democratic process, and revolutionary strategy.

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    Marxist-Leninism expanded Marxism by emphasizing Lenin's view of imperialism as capitalism's final stage and shifting revolutionary struggle to underdeveloped countries. It was adopted in countries like Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. While Lenin never used the terms "Leninism" or "Marxist-Leninism", his ideas diverged from classical Marxism in emphasizing imperialism as the reason revolutions had not occurred and in arguing that Russia's conditions were suitable for revolution despite being less developed. This led to a split in the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party between the Bolshevik and Menshevik factions over issues like party leadership, democratic process, and revolutionary strategy.

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    Leninism (Notes)

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    Marxist-Leninism expanded Marxism by emphasizing Lenin's view of imperialism as capitalism's final stage and shifting revolutionary struggle to underdeveloped countries. It was adopted in countries like Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. While Lenin never used the terms "Leninism" or "Marxist-Leninism", his ideas diverged from classical Marxism in emphasizing imperialism as the reason revolutions had not occurred and in arguing that Russia's conditions were suitable for revolution despite being less developed. This led to a split in the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party between the Bolshevik and Menshevik factions over issues like party leadership, democratic process, and revolutionary strategy.

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    Marxist-Leninism

    ● An expanded form of Marxism that emphasizes Lenin's concept of imperialism as the final
    stage of capitalism and shifts the focus of struggle from developed to underdeveloped
    countries.
    ● Made Hochiminh, Lao, Burma cry because this was a political system suitable for them
     
    Leninism

    ● Lenin himself never used the term 'Leninism' nor 'Marxist-Leninism' (they were only used
    after his death)
    ● However, his ideas diverged from classical Marxist theory
    ● Bolsheviks saw these differences as advancements of Marxism made by Lenin
     
    Russian Marxists

    ● 1883: first Marxist group, Liberation of Labour, set up by Plekhanov


    ● Plekhanov went overseas to escape the Russian secret police
    ● 1895: Marxists in Russia then set up Union of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working
    Class and 17 intellectuals wrote pamphlets and helped organise a strike
    ● Among them was Vladimir Ulyanovsk (Lenin)
    ● 1896: Russia Social Democratic Labour Party founded in Minsk-> political Marxism enters
    Russia officially as this is active group, not mere reading
     
    *Marxism predicted that there will be revolution against capitalism in Germany or Britain because
    there was big proletariat group there

    However,
    Lenin argued in 1910 that there has been no revolution in England and Germany so far and suggested
    that Marx must have missed something.

    Capitalists fight each other to have the most successful businesses.


    They need more resources to make more stuff and keep their workers busy.
    So they take extra resources from other countries by force.
    This is imperialism, the highest form of capitalism.

    Lenin believed that imperialism was the reason why there had been no revolution by 2010 and also
    why Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia are colonies of France, and India and much of Africa are colonies of
    Britain.

    He further argued that the workers are being kept quiet by being given more and more things to make
    but the resources are taken from the colonies.
    While Marx believed that Russia is much too underdeveloped, has more peasants than proletariats
    and few bourgeois, the conditions are not right for a workers' revolution

    Lenin believed that Russia is too industrially developed to be colonised but also not advanced enough
    to be a coloniser.
    The Russian proletariat cannot be bought off with goods from colonised countries like Vietnam.
     
    Disagreement with the other Party leaders

    ● 1903: RSDLP (Russian Social Democratic Party) met in Brussels but were troubled by Police
    and so moved to London
    ● Lenin's idea of leadership by a minority of dedicated revolutionaries was not popular
    ● The party was split between those who called themselves 'Bolsheviks'(the majority) following
    Lenin and 'Mensheviks' following Martov(the minority), who did not believe Russia was yet
    ready for revolution
     
    Difference between Leninism and Marxism

    Michael Lynch: Although Lenin was careful always to describe his policies as 'democratic', for him the
    term had a particular meaning. Democracy was not to be reckoned as a matter of numbers but as a
    method of Party rule. Because the party was a vehicle of historical change, its role was not to win
    large-scale backing, but to direct the Revolution from above, regardless of the scale of popular
    support.
     
     
    Menshevik Issue Bolshevik
    Russia not ready for proletarian Revolutionary Bourgeois and proletarian stages could
    revolution-the bourgeois stage had to Stage be telescoped into one revolution
    occur first
    A mass organisation with membership The Party A tight-knit, exclusive, organisation of
    open to all revolutionaries professional revolutionaries
    Open, democratic discussion within the Decision-Making Central Committee to exercise
    party-decisions arrived at by votes of authority- called: 'democratic
    members centralism'
    No co-operation with other parties Strategy Alliance with other revolutionary and
    bourgeois parties
    Support of trade unions in getting Economism dismissed as playing into
    better wages and conditions the hands of the other parties. Aim to
    (Economism) turn workers into revolutionaries.
     
     

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