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Contrasting Between Marx & Lenin

Lenin Marx

* 20th century political * Lenin was an early leader of the Soviet Union | * 19th century economist * Marx was a philosopher who wrote about his ideas for a Communist state |

EXTREME LEFT WINGS |

* No confidence in man * Master organizer * Primary of politics over economics * Practical Political leader * Had one fixed goal; to take control of Russia & reshape it according to communist principles | * Confidence in man to think for themselves * Scholar and polemicist * Primacy of economics over politics * Economic forces as the main engines of social and economic progress * The product of the 19th century |

Considers himself a follower of Marx |

Both opposed to Capitalism |

* Attack and destroy the existing political & social system where it was weakest * “Why wait for capitalism to mature?” * Understood the importance of the undeveloped areas in the balance of world power | * 1st communist revolution would occur in Western Europe * Laws of economics development could not be interfered with * Each country had to go through the various stages of capitalism before it could become communist |

SOCIALISTS |

Communist Revolution is Inevitable |

* Saw problems in a global perspective * Lenin felt capitalism was peaceful in the early stages * Appealed to the workers and peasants * Felt one’s strongest loyalty was to the nation * Dictatorship of the communist party over the proletariat * Leninism reversed Marx’s order of economics and Leninism comprises political and socialist economic theories. * (As a political-science term) Leninism entered common usage in 1922 | * Europe was the centre of the world. * Marx felt capitalism was a peaceful state. * Appealed to the proletariat * Felt one’s strongest loyalty was to the class * Communism revolution...