The phrase Socialist state, or Communist states in the West, is widely used by Leninists and Marxist – Leninists in reference to a state under the control of a vanguard party that is organizing the economic, social and political affairs of said state toward the construction of socialism.

There are also Leninists ( for example the International Socialist Tendency and its offshoots ) who advocate a council-based society, but maintain that workers ' councils cannot carry out a revolution without the leadership of a vanguard party.

In January 1910 Leninists, followers of Bogdanov and various Menshevik factions held a meeting of the party's Central Committee in Paris and tried to re-unite the party.

: See also Communist Union ( France ) for the Trotskyist organisation or Communist Union ( Marxist – Leninists ) a Danish communist party.

After disposing of the Bourgeois dictatorship through socialist revolution, Leninists seek to create a socialist state in which the working class would be in power, which they see as being essential for laying the foundations for a transitional withering of the state towards communism ( Stateless society ).

This is, according to Leninists, a vital function as mass revolutions can sometimes be easily crushed by the disciplined military of the ruling classes.

However, Christian communists sometimes disagree with Marxists ( and particularly with Leninists ) on the way a socialist or communist society should be organized.

The FARC's Conferences, as seen by Marxists and Leninists, can be interpreted as similar to the International conferences previously held in Europe with the participation Karl Marx, Fredrick Engels, Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky.

Following the First World War the international socialist movement was irreconcilably split into two hostile factions: on the one side, the social democrats, who broadly supported their national governments during the conflict ; and on the other side Leninists and their allies who formed the new Communist Parties that were organised into the Third International, which was established in March 1919.

Moreover, contemporary Leninists propose that globalization is the continuation of 19th-century imperialism, wherein developed-country capitalists exploit the working class of underdeveloped and developed countries with low wages, over-long workdays, and intensive working conditions that disallow labour unions.

According to Marxist-Leninists, the state is a tool in the hands of the ruling class, which in a socialist society is the working class, so a socialist state is, according to Leninists, a state of the working class.

In contrast to Leninists, they believe that it is possible to make the transition from capitalism to the complete abolition of the state immediately that the majority decide to do it.

Group of Marxist – Leninists / Red Dawn ( in Dutch: Groep van Marxisten-Leninisten / Rode Morgen ) is a maoist group in the Netherlands.

Almost all the members elected to the party's Central Committee were Leninists while former RDSLP leaders not associated with Bolshevism were removed from office.

While some members of the New York City local did eventually become Leninists, this accusation did not make sense to most members of the group, who defined themselves as anarchists and rejected Leninism.

Following the Sino – Albanian split, a small portion of Marxist – Leninists began to downplay or repudiate the role of Mao Zedong in the International Communist Movement in favor of the Party of Labor of Albania and a stricter adherence to Stalin.

The left coalition Campaign for Labour Party Democracy was a bizarre mix of radical democrats, Leninists old and new, traditional Labour leftists, feminists, libertarians and decentralists.

Leninists reply that cheap consumer goods are precisely the method through which global capitalists allow workers in their home countries to share in their superprofits.

Left Communists see themselves to the left of Leninists ( whom they tend to see as ' left of capital ', not socialists ), Anarchists ( some of whom they consider internationalist socialists ) as well as some other revolutionary socialist tendencies ( for example De Leonists, who they tend to see as being internationalist socialists only in limited instances ).

Left Communists see themselves to the left of Leninists ( whom they tend to see as ' left of capital ', not socialists ), anarchist communists ( some of whom they consider internationalist socialists ) as well as some other revolutionary socialist tendencies ( for example De Leonists, who they tend to see as being internationalist socialists only in limited instances ).

In about 1973 the group was renamed the Central Organization of US Marxist – Leninists and militantly opposed the police and fascism, as well as socialists and communists they considered " revisionist ".

This view distinguished Bordiga from other Leninists, and especially the Trotskyists, who tended ( and still tend ) to telescope the first two stages and so have money and the other exchange categories surviving into " socialism ".

In January 1910, Leninists, recallists and various Menshevik factions held a meeting of the party's Central Committee in Paris.

Although central planning was largely supported by Marxist Leninists, some factions within the Soviet Union before the rise of Stalinism held positions contrary to central planning.

State capitalism has been used by various socialists, including Anarchists, Marxists and Leninists.

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League of Dutch Marxist – Leninists ( in Dutch: Bond van Nederlandse Marxisten-Leninisten ) was a communist organisation in the Netherlands.

Trotsky had previously suggested that Lenin's method of organisation would lead to a dictatorship, but it is important to emphasise that after 1917 orthodox Trotskyists argue that the loss of democracy in the Soviet Union was caused by the failure of the revolution to successfully spread internationally and the consequent wars, isolation and imperialist intervention, not the Bolshevik style of organisation.

After Lenin's death, Stalin used these quotes and others to argue that Lenin shared his view of Socialism in One Country.

Khrushchev used this aspect of Lenin's politics to argue that while socialism would eventually triumph over capitalism, this would be done not by force but by example.

Proponents of Lenin's position on the nationalities argue that it was in fact what brought many members of the different nationalities of the former Czarist Empire together in supporting the Bolshevik-led revolution.

Maoists and Hoxhaists argue that flaws in the system under Lenin and Joseph Stalin were due to a lack of the party's faith in the masses and that this resulted in the party disconnecting itself to the needs of the people, which was then exploited by Marxist revisionists who turned the Soviet Union away from Marxism-Leninism after Lenin's death.

Bureaucracies then become the ideal birthplaces of violence since they are defined as the " rule by no one ," with whom to argue against and therefore re-create the missing link with the people it rules over.

Proponents of the Tayside beavers argue that they have not been proven to be of " wrong " genetic stock and there is scientific evidence to support that they may represent a rather ideal mix of western European populations, since any single relict population in western Europe is relatively genetically depauperate.

They argue that this new ideal type of person and society can and should be engineered by all means available including using the mass media and primary schools to manufacture them " by design " ( pp. 389, 395 ).

argue in Green States and Social Movements: Environmentalism in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Norway ( 2003 ) that there may be a common global green environmental social movement, though its specific outcomes are nationalist, falling into four ' ideal types ' of interaction between environmental movements and state power.

The other state, Luzania, constitutes the most significant treatment of the topic of an " ideal state " in Lem ( and many would argue, in all science fiction ).

They argue the ideal social and cultural conditions for the foundation of a democracy are born of significant modernization and economic development that result in mass political participation.

" In the Symposium, the most famous ancient work on the subject, Plato has the middle-aged Athenian philosopher, Socrates, argue to aristocratic intellectuals and a young male acolyte in sexual pursuit of him, that eros helps the soul recall knowledge of beauty, and contributes to an understanding of spiritual truth, the ideal " Form " of youthful beauty that leads us humans to feel erotic desire -- thus suggesting that even that sensually-based love aspires to the non-corporeal, spiritual plane of existence ; that is, finding its truth, just like finding any truth, leads to transcendence.

Doughty's epic poem The Dawn in Britain, originally published 1906 in six volumes, provides a preparatory basis and ideal to Laura ( Riding ) Jackson and Schuyler B. Jackson's project of establishing an access to what they argue is an inherent meaning of words in their Rational Meaning: a New Foundation for the Definition of Words and Supplementary Essays.

Some sociologists argue that ideal type tends to focus on extreme phenomena and overlook the connections between them, and that it is difficult to show how the types and their elements fit into a theory of a total social system.

Proponents of the beavers argue that they have not been proven to be of " wrong " genetic stock and there is scientific evidence to support that they may represent a rather ideal mix of western European populations, since any single relict population in western Europe is relatively genetically depauperate.

The growing amount of recidivism in the latter half of the nineteenth century led a number of criminologists to argue that " imprisonment did not, and could not fulfill its original ideal of treatment aimed at reintegrating the offender into the community ".

“ Nancy Friday ’ s successful fantasy revelations ( My Secret Garden, Forbidden Flowers ) have seen her placed among the feminist erotic pioneers .” Her writings argue that women have often been reared under an ideal of womanhood, which was outdated and restrictive, and largely unrepresentative of many women ’ s true inner lives, and that openness about women ’ s hidden lives could help free women to truly feel able to enjoy being themselves.

They argue that because of the popularity of trades that they are forced to produce five or six issue arcs simply because this is the ideal size of a trade.

In the major statement of the Celtic Thesis, authors argue in the antebellum South, Celtic peoples found an ideal geopolitical niche to carry on their traditional pastoral lifestyle.

Advocates for greater equality in the distribution of wealth, for example, will argue that inequalities create differing levels of opportunity, and that equality is a " democratic ideal ".