Influenced by Lenin, the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party stated that the development of the socialist workers ’ culture should not be ‘ hamstrung from above ’, and opposed the Proletkult ( 1917 – 25 ) organisational control of the national culture.

They also note that Lenin put a ban on factions within the Russian Communist Party and introduced the one-party state in 1921-a move that enabled Stalin to get rid of his rivals easily after Lenin's death, and cite Felix Dzerzhinsky, who, during the Bolshevik struggle against opponents in the Russian Civil War, exclaimed " We stand for organised terror – this should be frankly stated ".

In his closing remarks, he stated: " Our party, the SED, is linked forever with the party of Lenin, CPSU.

Lenin stated:

While the difference in the definitions was very small, with Lenin's being slightly more exclusive ( Lenin's formulation required the party member to be a member of one of the party's organizations, whereas Martov's only stated that he should work under the guidance of a party organization ), it was indicative of what became an essential difference between the philosophies of the two emerging factions: Lenin argued for a small party of professional revolutionaries with a large fringe of non-party sympathizers and supporters, whereas Martov believed it was better to have a large party of activists with broad representation.

In his 1915 article " On the Slogan for a United States of Europe ", Lenin stated the following: " Uneven economic and political development is an absolute law of capitalism.

Vladimir Lenin stated that Kronstadt " lit up reality like a lightning flash ".

Leader Vladimir Lenin stated that the Soviet Union was surrounded by a " hostile capitalist encirclement ", and he viewed diplomacy as a weapon to keep Soviet enemies divided, beginning with the establishment of the Soviet Comintern, which called for revolutionary upheavals abroad.

Leader Vladimir Lenin stated that the Soviet Union was surrounded by a " hostile capitalist encirclement " and he viewed diplomacy as a weapon to keep Soviet enemies divided, beginning with the establishment of the Soviet Comintern, which called for revolutionary upheavals abroad.

This anthem stated that Lenin had lit the path to freedom, helped by the Russian people, and exhorted the Lithuanian people to work with peoples of the other Soviet Republics.

In contrast, Jeff Sharlet, who was interviewed on NBC News and wrote a book, The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, and an article in Harper's about his experience serving as an intern in the Fellowship, has stated that the organization fetishizes power by comparing Jesus to " Lenin, Ho Chi Minh, Bin Laden " as examples of leaders who change the world through the strength of the covenants they had forged with their " brothers ".

) The booklet further stated that though there was much to be learnt from the doctrines of Marx, Engels and Lenin it did not regard them as ' gospel ' unlike Communists, ' especially Burmese Communists ', who are ' vulgar materialists '.

The resolution of the Central Committee of the Party, drafted by Lenin, stated:

Later official Soviet history stated that this move on behalf of Trotsky, Bukharin and their followers had been part of a conspiracy to break the Brest-Litovsk agreement and to overthrow Lenin.

Commenting on the vision of the technological singularity, a future time when people and machines would combine to form a new superintelligence, and at least a part of humanity might overcome biological limitations like death and disease, he has stated that " The Singularity is not the great vision for society that Lenin had or Milton Friedman might have.

from the University of Washington in Seattle ( where he was “ stated to be a known Communist ”) and a Ph. D. from the University of California, Berkeley, where his thesis was entitled Lenin ’ s Economic Thought Prior to the October Revolution.

Chief among these was the Russian Vladimir Lenin, whose works such as Our Programme ( 1899 ) set out the views of those who rejected revisionist ideas.

The juxtaposition of the poverty, homelessness, exploitive work conditions, prostitution, and infant mortality of Whitechapel and other East End locales with some of the greatest personal wealth the world has ever seen made it a focal point for leftist reformers and revolutionaries of all kinds, from George Bernard Shaw, whose Fabian Society met regularly in Whitechapel, to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, who boarded and led rallies in Whitechapel during his exile from Russia.

Rejecting Mao's idealistic, communitarian values but not necessarily the values of Marx and Lenin, Deng emphasized that socialism did not mean shared poverty ( thus repudiating the Gang of Four's slogan " We would rather be poor under socialism than rich under capitalism.

While the problem of the desperate poverty of tens of millions of landless farmers across the country had to be addressed, Gandhi did not believe that class warfare was inevitable, as Vladimir Lenin, Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin did.

The removal of Stalin's body from the mausoleum he shared with Lenin to less distinguished quarters in the Kremlin wall is not unprecedented in history.

The Lenin tomb is obviously adequate for double occupancy, Moscow is a crowded city, and the creed of Communism deplores waste.

Who, then, is of sufficient stature to lodge with Lenin??

In his testament, Lenin referred to Trotsky's " exceptional abilities ", adding " personally he is perhaps the most able man in the present central committee.

This is in deep contrast to the Lenin era ( 1917 – 1924 ), when six Congresses were held, five conferences and 69 meetings of the Central Committee.

Lenin develops these in a further series of notes, and appears to argue that " the transition of quantity into quality and vice versa " is an example of the unity and opposition of opposites expressed tentatively as " not only the unity of opposites, but the transitions of every determination, quality, feature, side, property into every other its opposite ?.

The philosophic solution that Lenin ( and Engels ) proposed was " dialectical materialism ", wherein matter is defined as " objective reality ", theoretically consistent with ( new ) developments occurred in the sciences.

The Institute of Marxist-Leninist Studies, led by Hoxha's wife Nexhmije, quoted Vladimir Lenin: " The fundamental principle of the foreign policy of a socialist country and of a Communist party is proletarian internationalism ; not peaceful coexistence.

Lenin begins from the premise that guerrilla warfare must be linked to struggle of the masses of the working class, or else it is against the interests of revolution: ' the acts of individuals isolated from the masses, which demoralise the workers, repel wide strata of the population, disorganise the movement and injure the revolution '".

This sketch is abstract-real historical understanding needed for developing political strategy and tactics must involve " concrete analysis of concrete conditions " ( Vladimir Lenin ).

About the political disenfranchisement of the Russian capitalist social classes, Lenin said that ‘ depriving the exploiters of the franchise is a purely Russian question, and not a question of the dictatorship of the proletariat, in general ....

Marxism – Leninism is a communist ideology, officially based upon the theories of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Vladimir Lenin, that promotes the development and creation of an international communist society through the leadership of a vanguard party presiding over a revolutionary socialist state that represents a dictatorship of the proletariat.

Whether Stalin's practices actually followed the principles of Karl Marx and Lenin is still a subject of debate among historians and political scientists.

Marxism – Leninism is the descendant of interpretation of the theories of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and Vladimir Lenin.

As Lenin neared death after suffering strokes, he declared in his testament of December 1922 an order to remove Joseph Stalin from his post as General Secretary and replace him by " some other person who is superior to Stalin only in one respect, namely, in being more tolerant, more loyal, more polite and more attentive to comrades ".

Another of Eisenstein's films, 1927's October, depicted the Bolshevik perspective on the October Revolution, culminating in the storming of the Winter Palace which provided Soviet viewers with the victory that the workers and peasants lacked in Battleship Potemkin, ending with Lenin ( as played by an unknown worker ) declaring that the government is overthrown.

It is said that Vladimir Lenin and a young Joseph Stalin met in the Crown and Anchor pub ( now known as The Crown Tavern ) on Clerkenwell Green when the latter was visiting London in 1903.

In September 1917 V. I. Lenin wrote " There is only one way to prevent the restoration of the police, and that is to create a people's militia and to fuse it with the army ( the standing army to be replaced by the arming of the entire people ).

signed by Lenin ( the text of all Sovnarkom decrees 1918-20 is taken from Dekrety Sovetskoi

Leninism is the revolutionary theories developed by Vladimir Lenin, including the organizational principles of democratic centralism, Vanguardism and the political theory of imperialism.

* 1980 – After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established.

Stalinism is an interpretation of the ideas of Marx and Lenin, and a certain political regime claiming to apply those ideas in ways fitting the changing needs of society, as with the transition from " socialism at a snail's pace " in the mid-1920s to the rapid industrialization of the Five-Year Plans.