Its organization was subdivided into communist parties of the constituent Soviet republics as well as the mass youth organisation, the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League ( Komsomol ) and, for children, the Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union.

In the late 1980s, the Soviet government came under increased criticism, as did Leninist ideology ( which Gorbachev had attempted to preserve as the foundation for reform ), and members of the Soviet population were more outspoken in their view that the Soviet government had become a failure.

In his " Secret Speech ", On the Personality Cult and its Consequences, delivered to a closed session of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Khrushchev denounced Stalin for his cult of personality, and his regime for " violation of Leninist norms of legality ".

Because he explicitly both rejected Leninist vanguardism and criticised spontaneism ...( for ) Cornelius Castoriadis the emancipation of the mass of people was the task of those people ; however, the socialist thinker could not simply fold his or her arms.

In the soviet political system, the ( Leninist ) vanguard party would be one of many political parties competing for elected power.

In July 1922, the Second Congress of the Communist Party took place in Shanghai ; while Mao lost the address and was unable to attend, the delegates decided to finally adopt the Leninist advice by agreeing to an alliance with the " bourgeois democrats " of the Kuomintang for the good of the " national revolution " to unite China and free it of foreign imperialist influence.

* Marxist – Leninist Struggle League for the Communist Party of Sweden ( M – L ), defunct Swedish communist organization

The appellation " Marxist – Leninist " is often used by those not familiar with communist ideology in any detail ( e. g. many newspapers and other media ) as a synonym for any kind of Marxism.

Gorbachev's policies were designed at dismantling authoritarian elements of the state that were developed by Stalin, while aiming for a return to a supposed ideal Leninist state that retained single-party structure while allowing the democratic election of competing candidates within the Communist Party for political office.

In his efforts to fight bureaucracy and maintain ' Leninist principles ', Nikita Khrushchev, as the Premier of the Union, called for the dismissal of the All-Union MVD.

It was argued in the West that the Soviets rejected the Western concept of the " rule of law " as the belief that law should be more than just the instrument of politics ; the Soviet view on rights was criticized for considering the Marxist – Leninist ideology above natural law.

Democratic centralism is the name given to the principles of internal organization used by Leninist political parties, and the term is sometimes used as a synonym for any Leninist policy inside a political party.

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Bordiga throughout his life called himself a Leninist and never polemicized against Lenin directly, but his totally different appreciation of the 1921 conjuncture, its consequences for the Comintern, and his opposition to Lenin and Trotsky on the united front issue illuminates a turning point that is generally obscured by the heirs of the Trotskyist wing of the international left opposition of the 1920s.

Yuri Andropov served for some years as the first secretary of the republic's Komsomol branch, the Leninist Communist Youth League of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic.

The international tensions developed further when the Leninist Trotskyist Tendency was established in 1973 by the SWP and its co-thinkers in order to contribute to the debate for the Tenth World Congress.

The ISO identifies itself as a Leninist organization because it calls for the formation of a revolutionary party by the most militant workers, and states that it is committed to playing a role in helping to build the foundations for such a party.

The experiment was carried out by the Securitate secret police and overseen by Alexandru Nicolschi ; its goal was to psychologically destroy the capacity for outside attachment and outside loyalty, thus creating the brainwashed New Man meant to suit a Leninist society.

The party first ran candidates for the Canadian House of Commons during the 1974 federal election but has had to run them as candidates of the " Marxist – Leninist Party of Canada " after Elections Canada ruled that the party's preferred name was too close to that of the Communist Party of Canada.

The publication of the draft and the beginning of the pre-Congress discussion period led to furious arguments within the party-with the majority saying that the new programme was about building a broad alliance for revolutionary social change, though implicitly or explicitly agreeing that the proposals broke with the Leninist tradition.

Unlike the " long telegram ", Kennan's well-timed article appearing in the July 1947 issue of Foreign Affairs under the pseudonym " X ," entitled " The Sources of Soviet Conduct ," did not begin by emphasizing " traditional and instinctive Russian sense of insecurity "; instead it asserted that Stalin's policy was shaped by a combination of Marxist – Leninist ideology, which advocated revolution to defeat the capitalist forces in the outside world and Stalin's determination to use the notion of " capitalist encirclement " as a fig leaf legitimizing his regimentation of Soviet society so that he could consolidate his political power.

Under the Leninist definition, the socialist state presides over a state capitalist economy structured upon state-directed accumulation of capital with the goal of building up the country's productive forces and promoting worldwide socialist revolution, with the eventual long-term goal of building a socialist economy.

Historically, it has been a practice of Marxist – Leninist parties to unite with non-communist forces in revolution.

* Karmal felt that Afghanistan was too undeveloped for a Leninist strategy and that a national democratic front of patriotic and anti-imperialist forces had to be fostered in order to bring the country a step closer to socialist revolution.

As a result, since 1917, Trotskyism as a political theory is fully committed to a Leninist style of democratic centralist party organisation, which Trotskyists argue must not be confused with the party organisation as it later developed under Stalin.

Aflaq supported the idea of a committed activist revolutionary party based on the Leninist model, which in practice was based on democratic centralism.

Other Marxists such as Luxemburgists disagree with the Leninist idea of a vanguard, and insist that the entire working class-or at least a large part of it-must be deeply involved and equally committed to the socialist or communist cause in order for a proletarian revolution to be successful.

Anarchists reject the Leninist model of the " dictatorship of the proletariat ," arguing that any revolutionary minority taking over state power would be just as authoritarian as the ruling class in capitalism to defend the new state, and would eventually constitute itself as a new ruling class.

The central argument of council communism, in contrast to those of Social democracy and Leninist communism, is that workers ' councils arising in the factories and municipalities are the natural and legitimate form of working class organisation and government power.

The success of the De Leonist plan depends on achieving majority support among the people both in the workplaces and at the polls, in contrast to the Leninist notion that a small vanguard party should lead the working class to carry out the revolution.

Functionally, the Leninist vanguard party provided to the working class the political consciousness ( education and organisation ), and the revolutionary leadership necessary to depose capitalism in Imperial Russia.

Hence, the purpose of the Leninist vanguard party is to establish a democratic dictatorship of the proletariat ; supported by the working class, the vanguard party would lead the revolution to depose the incumbent Tsarist government, and then transfer power of government to the working class, which change of ruling class — from bourgeoisie to proletariat — makes possible the full development of socialism.

A Communist party is, at least according to Leninist theory, the vanguard party of the working class, whether ruling or non-ruling, but when such a party is in power in a specific country, the party is said to be the highest authority of the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Chief among the tenets of Council Communism is its opposition to the party vanguardism and democratic centralism of Leninist Ideologies and its contention that democratic workers ' councils arising in the factories and municipalities are the natural form of working class organization and authority.

In fighting the over-lapping wars, Mao ignored much of the politico-military advice and direction from Joseph Stalin and the Comintern, because of the practical difficulty in applying traditional Leninist revolutionary theory to China, because there were only peasants, and no urban working class, as in Russia.

Mainly, it is argued that it is not a class that takes power but at best a minority of that class, a party in the Leninist sense, and so is a dictatorship over the proletariat.

The PRF produced a document rejecting the International Socialist Tendency's analysis of an upswing in class struggle during the mid-1990s, (" the 1990s is the 1930s in slow motion ") and the Leninist conception of the party.

The success of the De Leonist plan depends on achieving majority support among the people both in the workplaces and at the polls, in contrast to the Leninist notion that a small vanguard party should lead the working class to carry out the revolution.

Albert and Hahnel argued that while those aspects of Marxist theory rejecting the institutions of private property and markets were well-founded, other aspects of Marxist and Marxist – Leninist doctrine, including its economistic bias, dialectical methodology, historical materialism, class concepts, labour theory of value, crises theory and rejection of visionary thinking, and authoritarian values and tendencies, were either partially or wholly flawed ; and often constituted obstacles in the struggle for social justice.

In building up the party, Fahd was guided by his own class feelings and political distrust of the intelligentsia and students, as much as by Leninist principles.

Early on, the Leninist view of the class struggle and the resulting notion of the dictatorship of the proletariat provided the theoretical basis of the repressions.

made official doctrine of Stalin ’ s revisionist practices the new program discards the Leninist conception of imperialism and its corresponding revolutionary class struggle policies.