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Leninism

Leninism

4 8.8
Political ideas by Vladimir Lenin about how a small party should lead a workers' revolution
  • noun
  • /ˈlɛnɪnɪzəm/
  • Specialized
translation icon : leninismo
  • Paradoxically, perhaps, Leninism-Stalinism and similar models laid down the basis for capitalist development, not for socialism.
  • Marxism-Leninism
  • Marxist-Leninism
  • collapse of Marxist-Leninism

Well, go to school, you know, go to school because they teach Marxism, they teach Leninism in school.

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Examples

  • And that was the first, that was the first encounter I had with proper Leninism in Seattle.

  • We should distinguish it from Leninism and Stalinism.

  • At any rate, I think people should take Leninism more seriously than they do.

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  • I would like to write down some thoughts regarding Leninism as a historical and theoretical position.

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  • Well, go to school, you know, go to school because they teach Marxism, they teach Leninism in school.

  • There is a good reason why the Chinese system is often described as "market-Leninism." The Party controls.

    Academic text (2011)
  • For us, Marxism-Leninism was not something we chose out of a book.

    Academic text (1992)
  • So with Leninism, you get this weird mixture of determinism and volunteerism.

  • Three basic political systems now coexist: Leninism, authoritarian pluralism, and parliamentary democracy.

    Academic text (1991)
  • In the early 20th century, Leninism emerged as a significant political ideology that influenced many socialist movements worldwide.

Synonyms

Bolshevism
vsLeninism
2 9.2

A form of communism that guided the Soviet Union after the Russian Revolution

is the theoretical set of ideas highlighting imperialism and vanguard necessity
Marxism-Leninism
vsLeninism
1 7.4

A political view that says workers should control society under one leading party, based on Marx and Lenin

focuses on specific modifications stressing imperialism and a vanguard party

Compounds

A political view that says workers should control society under one leading party, based on Marx and Lenin

How Revolutionary

Leninism
  • Specialized
4 8.8
Marxism
3 6.4
socialism
192 5.0
reformism
1 7.8

Surface Forms

Leninism singular
Leninisms plural

Morphology

Leninism = Lenin (transparent) = Lenin + ism

The noun is a straightforward formation 'Lenin' + '-ism' meaning the ideology or doctrines associated with Lenin, which most learners can derive if they know the name and the suffix '-ism'.

Etymology

Leninism comes from the leader Lenin plus the ending -ism, which means 'a system of beliefs or ideas'. So Leninism names the political and economic system based on Lenin's ideas, the set of theories that guided the early Soviet Union.