Question by Swanneh.: How did Vladimir lenin adapt marxism to conditions in Russia?
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Answer by tunaears
lets see- he decided that it might be a good idea to massacre the royal family- yup, what a guy- i wish i was big and strong enough- to say, hey, lets murder a 13 year old in the most brutal way possible-
thank goodness someone saw sense and patronised them.
sorry- just my opinion
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Spellbound says
Lenin made two important revisions of Marxist doctrine: Marx claimed that history was marked by changed in the economic relationships of the classes, i.e. history marched on an "inevitable" path from hunter-gatherer to slavery, to feudalism to capitalism to imperialism to socialism and finally to communism. He stated that each of these stages morphed into the next stage when they were fully mature and through a process he called class struggle. Lenin believed that, although Russia had only just shaken off feudalism, and was barely capitalist (although it was imperialist) this stage could be "telescoped" – shortened – allowing for a socialist revolution.
His other major revision was that Marx claimed that the peasantry was always conservative and would support the existing regime; the workers would be the motor of the socialist revolution. Lenin realised that because in Russia the working class was so small then the peasants also had to be part of the socialist revolution.
See:
Lenin, A Biography – Robert Service
Karl Marx – Francis Wheen
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Leonard Shapiro
poornakumar b says
He saw that the proletariat was the most oppressed and exploited. So he wanted to bring in the 'Dictatorship of the proletariat' that alone would empower them to improve their lot, free from the controls of the aristocracy. However he finished off the aristocracy.