Lenin+and+Marxism

Nima Khatib

Lenin and Marxism

" In what ways and why did Lenin alter Marxism? "

Thesis: Lenin altered Marxism because of his changing idea's of communism, socialism, and capitalism; these effected his economic policy as he changed it three times.


 * //Communist Manifesto// - book written by Marx and Engels, emphasized the struggle of the classes
 * Lenin's //Imperialism, the Highest Stage of World Capitalism// - capitalism leads to imperialism and the only cure for imperialism was the destruction of capitalism
 * Social Darwinism - Darwin's idea's of Natural Selection put into practice in society
 * March Revolution - Russia's leader proved incompetent, Bolsheviks took over
 * "peace, love, bread - slogan of Lenin's reform
 * Cheka - secret police
 * Red terror - caused from lack of guidance of the Cheka
 * red army - Bolshevik army, fought against the Siberian, White army
 * April Theses - a blueprint for revolutionary action based on Lenin's version of the Marxist theory
 * Violence as a use to out compete political opponents
 * overthrew government
 * Communism - first adopted, proved as a failure economically
 * Socialism - second adopted, proved better but still failed because it controlled too much
 * Capitalism - took over socialism
 * new economic policy - modified version of the old capitalist system, gave freedom to small buisinesses
 * Lenin proved an example for one man rule
 * lack of leadership after Lenin's death lead to an unbalance of power amongst the polituburo