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Question by benito q: What was the role of Karl Marx, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, and Leon Trotsky in the russian revolution?
I am confused about whether each figures against communism or such.
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Answer by Ax.
I’m not in the know as much as I’d like to be, but right off the bat, Karl Marx is anti-communist, he even says so himself, and that he is initially a socialist, not a communist.
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Kagen Fell says
First of all don't listen to 'Ax', Marx wrote a book titled "Principles of Communism". Marx was one of the most know Communist/Socialist promoters and founders. Lenin was the leader of the Bolsheviks who started Communism in Russia, Trotsky was his right hand man. Lenin wanted Trotsky to become Premier of Russia after himself.
Silas says
Lenin was Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924).
Marx (1818-1883) established the principles behind communism/socialism, in his book the Communist Manifesto, (which was published a while before the revolution), and in that book he pressed that a violent insurrection was necessary to install communism (and Lenin followed that advice). So Marx did not directly affect the revolution, rather he indirectly gave them the idea.
Trotsky was Russian revolutionary and Communist theorist who helped Lenin and built up the army; he was ousted from the Communist Party by Stalin and eventually assassinated in Mexico (1879-1940)