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"A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is."

Vladimir Lenin, The State And Revolution

Leninism, also known as Orthodox Leninism or Bolshevism, is a highly authoritarian, economically far-left socialist and communist ideology based on the beliefs of the Russian revolutionary and first leader of the Soviet Union Vladimir Lenin. He believes in the establishment of a Dictatorship of the Proletariat led by a Revolutionary Vanguard Party . He wants the full abolishment of private property and is in favor of socialist publicly owned property.

History

The Russian Revolution was a revolution that formed the first Marxist state by eliminating Tsar Nicholas II in 1917. Before the revolution, Russia was in a complicated situation, high social inequalities, lack of freedom, absolutism, extreme poverty, illiteracy, remnants of feudalism, backwardness compared to other countries, exhausting work with several hours and among countless other problems. One of the first oppositions emerged with the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP) of a Marxist and democratic socialist nature founded by Vladimir Lenin but ended up being considered illegal by the Empire, in which Lenin ended up fleeing to other European countries. Subsequently, the party split into two wings, the more radical Bolsheviks (Russian "Majority") and the more moderate Mensheviks (Russian "Minority").

The empire was already losing popularity among the people, in which there were protests in 1905 in Saint Petersburg, but it was violently repressed with the imperial guard shooting and killing hundreds, in what became known as Bloody Sunday. After the massacre, the people were furious against the tsar, culminating in the revolution of 1905, causing the tsar to create the Duma (parliament) as a way to alleviate the situation, allowing parties. Many historians claim that the revolution of 1905 was a "rehearsal" for that of 1917. In 1907, some revolutionaries were arrested or had to flee (like Lenin, again). way to calm the protests and increase patriotism against an outside enemy, but it was a disaster due to the high number of casualties and the death of 1,600,000-1,800,000 soldiers, destroying what was left of Russia (economy, infrastructure, quality of life, etc was completely destroyed), causing the tsar himself to command the army in 1915 leaving his wife to rule the country, in which they accused her of treason for being German and also of the Romanov family being influenced by Grigori Rasputin, being assassinated in 1916. numerous protests, rebellions, and increased tensions, in which there was a demonstration in 1917, in which the guard was called to repress, but ended up allying with the protesters, which in March of the same year took place the Revolution of February (calendar difference), overthrowing the Tzar and the monarchs. A provisional government formed by the Duma and led by Alexander Kerensky was formed, in addition to the influence of the Petrograd Soviet (dual power). Kerensky's provisional government ended up granting amnesty to political prisoners and establishing democracy with a secret vote, but continued into World War I, in which at the behest of the German government to destabilize Russia, Lenin returned to Russia, promising "Peace, Land and Bread". ", that in October of the same year, there was the October Revolution, overthrowing the provisional government and Lenin taking power. The Bolsheviks became the communist party and took measures in this direction, in addition to exiting the First World War, which, even losing the elections, remained in power and repressed opponents (turning into a dictatorship).

Several opponents of Lenin, some ex-Mensheviks, pro-church and pro-empire formed the white army, while the communists formed the red army led by Leon Trotsky. The white army took most of the country (Siberia), but the whites had several internal divergences, the red army took the smallest part (the European part), but the was "better part", in which it had more industries, population, a better climate, etc. and it had few internal divergences. There were also Greens who were against everyone and wanted centrism and Blacks who were anarchists, who took Ukraine but later supported the Reds. There was also the execution of the Romanov family. Both sides committed massacres and atrocities, known as White Terror and Red Terror. There was the consolidation of the USSR, there were the so-called revolutionary courts that tried, arrested, or executed the "counter-revolutionaried".

After the civil war, Soviet Russia merged with other Soviet states, including the Ukraine SSR, and formed the Soviet Union. The brutal civil war severely devastated the Russian economy and caused the The Great Russian Famine. Lenin saw the flaws of War Communism and realized that socialism could not be built in such a short time frame. He, therefore, enacted the New Economic Policy, which he described as “ State Capitalism”. The NEP allowed small and medium enterprises to operate and allowed the existence of private property. This economic policy oversaw the restoration of pre-war production and sustained economic growth.

After the revolution, communism began to take influence, parties and movements in Europe, bringing the first red fear, eventually electing fascist and anti-communist leaders later. There are currently several debates and controversies regarding the Russian Revolution, with some extolling Lenin as a liberator of the oppressed from capitalism, others as a genocidal dictator who led the Russian people to misery and others considering him as a state capitalist because of the NEP.

Foundational Beliefs

Vanguardism

Lenin talks about the structure of a Vanguard in What is to Be Done. The Vanguard is a structure to be taken by a social class (in this case, the Proletariat), in order to exert political power and force against the former oppressive class/classes (in this case, the Aristocracy and Bourgeoisie). This form of organization involves the most revolutionary minds of the class form organizations known as the revolutionary Vanguard, to gather in the great portion of the working class in a unified political movement. This organization serves the function of:

1) Organizing the Proletariat, by educating the masses and instilling revolutionary class consciousness in them.

2) Defending Marxism against reactionary forces and hostile political systems present, by a revolutionary organisation lead by the most class-conscious of the workers for organizational unity and coherence.

3) Via the process of Democratic Centralism, organize the party through professional revolutionaries so that the Vanguard can both defend itself from other classes and organize and coordinate the workers for the Revolutionary takeover of power.

He argued this form of organization was necessary because of the observation of the working class in Western Europe not developing revolutionary class consciousness in mass and explained this phenomenon based on the division of labor and long working hours of workers causing this to happen. Nevertheless, Lenin believed that the working class could be organized into a revolutionary force, and the necessary tool for this was an organization that could draw in the masses toward a unified and coherent struggle.

Theory of Imperialism

Leninism inspected Imperialism's balls considered Imperialism to be the highest stage of capitalism in which global monopolies and cartels primarily drive society. According to him, its five basic features were:

• The presence of monopolies which play a decisive role in economic life.
• The merging of bank capital with industrial capital into finance capital controlled by a financial oligarchy.
• The export of capital as distinguished from the simple export of commodities.
• The formation of international monopolist capitalist associations (cartels).
• The territorial division of the whole world among the biggest capitalist powers.

Leninism's conception of imperialism is therefore quite different from the typical conception of Imperialism.

Revolution and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat

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Women's Rights

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Views on Other Ideologies

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Variants

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Personality

• Wears Lenin's famous iconic cap
• Heavy Russian accent
• Cynical attitude
• Very radical, uncompromising, militant, and revolutionary
• "That's got to be the best populist leader I've ever seen"
• Likes cats
• Also likes total party control, total ideological control, forced collectivism, unquestioning obedience, and rigid centralized top-down power structures and hierarchies with himself at the top
• Dislikes any deviation from the party line or criticism
• Also dislikes class enemies (a "class enemy" is whoever the party line says it is)
• Pretty much the opposite of left unity. If another leftist doesn't align enough with him, his positions and his policies, expect him to call that leftist a plethora of archetypical AuthLeft insults, such as "opportunist", "philistine", "bourgeois", "petit-bourgeois", "revisionist", "rightist", etc.

How to Draw

Flag of Leninism

Leninism's design is based on the flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic between the years 1918 to 1927 when Vladimir Lenin was its leader.

1. Draw a ball with eyes and fill it red.
2. Add a Horizontal red rectangle with a yellow border in the top left corner.
3. Add the Russian letters 'РсФсР' in the rectangle.
4. (Optional) Draw Lenin’s cap.

Color Name		HEX	RGB
	Red	#CC0000	rgb(204, 0, 0)
	Gold	#FFD700	rgb(255, 215, 0)

Relations

Товарищи (Comrades)

• Марксизм - Greatly inspired me and taught me a lot of stuff. I greatly thank him and admire him!
• Левый популизм - Land to the Peasants! Factories to the Workers! Peace to the People! Power to the Soviets! Though most of your modern proponents are mensheviks or even dirty succdems.
• Итальянский левый коммунизм - Your criticism of Turati and the others reformists was correct, but your conclusion from said criticism was wrong.
• Авангардизм - Democratic Centralism by the worker's soviets is the way to go.
• Эргатократия - Every cook must learn how to govern the state!
• КПК - Our Chinese comrades must join the Kuomintang to fuel the fires of a communist revolution in the future.
• Республиканизм - Death to the Romanovs, long live the Soviet Republics!
• Якобинизм - Just like how you ended the Ancien Regime, so to I ended the Tsarist autocracy.
• Марксизм-ленинизм - My most influential son who brought the revolution to the next stage and spread it to the whole world.
• Стратократия - Red Army is the strongest.

Люмпен-пролетариат (Lumpenproletariat)

• Троцкизм - While I appreciate you leaving the Mensheviks for me, and your competent leadership of the military in the Civil War, a lot of your essays were half-Menshevik and quite wrong.
• Бухаринизм - While you were an important and quite possibly the favorite theorist of the party, you never were able to grasp dialectics.
• Сталинизм - While you were an old and important member of the Bolshevik party, why did you purge the Old Bolsheviks and not listen to Tukhachevsky's orders in the Polish-Soviet War?!? However, you did manage to industrialize the Soviet Union and defeat fascists, so good job there.
• Юлий Мартов - You and I were friends, but your political views are nothing but philistine ramblings.
• Классическая социал-демократия - The old proletarian SPD was the model I used for the Bolshevik party, and I like Rosa, but she was critical of me, and I had to deal with the Mensheviks because their soviets opposed my vanguard party.
• НЭП (Post-revolution) - Look, I'm going to use you as a means to an end.
• Карл Каутский - You influenced me in the 2nd International. However, you have become nothing but a renegade after the 1st World War. Because you abandoned your ideas that I still defended.
• Кемализм - We helped you in the Turkish war of independence and you are a fellow anti-imperialist and a progressive. But you aren't a supporter of communism. Why? Don't you know the best way to fight imperialism is communism?
• Три Народных Принципа - A revolutionary democrat, endowed with nobility and heroism. Although you were not a fan of Marxism.
• Идеи Вильгельма II - Reactionary German imperialist. Thanks for the train back to Russia though.
• Демократический социализм - Menshevik scum! (I respect the Rosa Luxemburg supporters in your party tho). Also, your British version is FAR better
• Национал-коммунизм - The proletariat knows no country but I promoted several natcoms to key party positions in Ukraine.

Буржуазия и дворянство (Bourgeoisie and nobility)

• Николай II - I still remember when I shot you, your family and your servants ХАХАХА! Good riddance scum.
• Белая армия - The White Army and the Black Baron are preparing to restore to us the Tsar's throne, but from the taiga to the British seas, the Red Army is the strongest of all!
• Конституционный монархизм - The 1906 constitution was a half-measure by the Tsar designed to divert support.
• Социалистический революционизм - Stop blaming me for banning Left SRs: we tried to work together, but then they attempted to coup me!
• Монархо-социализм - What?
• Реформистский марксизм - Philistine! Renegade! Opportunist! You think that you can transform the bourgeois state into a proletarian one, disgusting! In order to seize the means of production revolution is a must!
• Детская болезнь "левизны" в коммунизме - What "Left-wing" rubbish! You are correct about the state and I prefer you over K*utsky.
• Капитализм - You are the enemy of the people! One day the workers will once again rise against you, filthy kulak! Mark my words!
• Аристократия - Same with you.
• Империализм - The highest stage of Capitalism.
• Фашизм - Ah yes, Fascism. The building blocks for pretty much most cancerous ideologies. You need to step into the pit for once.
• Нацизм - You aren’t a socialist. You just made up your own ideology with inspirations from Fascism and called yourself Socialism, German Fascism is what you truly are.
• Черносотенство - Tsarist AND Fascist? Get the bullet, reactionary scum! Also, Korenizatsiya goes brrrr, stay mad, Great Russian Chauvinist.
• Путинизм - I did not invent Ukraine, you chauvinist. I still don't get why my great-great-grandson kinda likes you.
  • Then why did you literally say you did, just now?

• Социал-демократия - Opportunist! Also, shame on you to be indifferent to witness Stratocracy murder Rosa!
• Реакционный социализм - A relic of the past, Feudalism's sad attempt to co-opt socialism to restore itself.
• Анархо-коммунизм - Petit-bourgeois naïve anarkiddy. We failed to cooperate unsurprisingly. You and your Utopian Socialism dreams are good but shall never happen!
• Бланкизм - We have always heard a chorus of accusation that we were too inflexible and ossified, too adamant. And yet our opponents call us “Blanquists”, “anarchists” and “true socialists”. The Blanquists are conspirators (they have never been in favour of the general strike), they exaggerate the importance of revolutionary government.
• Впередизм - A counterrevolutionary idiot who serves nothing more as a factionalist and thorn. Although more good ideas than bad, but how can you think that the peasants have no role in the revolution!?
• Национал-либерализм - Native bourgeoisie tool for conquering with sword and fire new markets for the national industry.
• Венизелизм - Social fascist version of above who tried to destroy me in his country.
• Национал-большевизм - Counter-revolutionary scums! I exiled Ustryalov for being an opportunist who worked with Kolchak.
• Младороссизм - Annoying reactionary monarchist LARPer who really likes me for some reason. Stalin was right to send you and your supporters to the Gulag.
• Белый национализм - Reactionary rats that make conspiracy theories of me being a Judeo-Bolshevik or whatever.
• Консерватизм and Реакционизм - Counter-revolutionaries.
• Консервативный социализм - A bourgeoisie socialist and a talist.
• Национализм - I oppose nationalism as it divides the working class.
• Санационизм - Reactionary nationalist scum.

Further Information

Literature

Works by Vladimir Lenin

• Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism
• "Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder
• The State And Revolution
• What Is To Be Done?
• Lenin's Philosophical Notebooks
• The Right of Nations to Self-Determination
• The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky
• The Emancipation of Women
• Essential Works of Lenin
• Economics And Politics In The Era Of The Dictatorship Of The Proletariat

Works by other Writers

• Leninism by Neil Harding
• Lenin Rediscovered: What is to be Done? In Context by Lars T. Lih

Wikipedia

• Vladimir Lenin
• Leninism
• Vanguardism
• Democratic Centralism
• Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
• Russian Revolution of 1905
• February Revolution
• Russian Constituent Assembly
• Dual Power
• Anatoli Zhelezniakov
• Bolshevik Party
  • Leon Trotsky
  • Nikolai Bukharin
  • Joseph Stalin
  • Yakov Sverdlov
  • Feliks Dzierżyński
  • Lev Kamenev
  • Grigory Zinoviev
  • Karl Radek
• Bolshevism
• Russian Revolution
• October Revolution
• Russian Civil War
• Murder of the Romanov family
• Cheka
• Red Terror
• War Communism
• Polish–Soviet War
• Finnish Civil War
• Russian famine of 1921–1922
• Korenizatsiia
• NEP
• Valery Sablin

Videos

• Lenin: What man is the monument erected on your square dedicated to? by Maxim Katz (In Russian)
• What is Leninism? by Viki 1999
• The Russian Revolution by Oversimplified (Part 1 and Part 2)
• The Russian Revolution by Simple History

Gallery

Portraits

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  Old portrait

Alternative designs

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  Biological Leninism
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  Biological Leninism
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  War Communism
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  Flag of Biological Leninism
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  Flag of War Communism

Comics and Artwork

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  Credit: Moonatik
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  Credit: bruno-radical
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  By AquaHeart