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2 days ago · A controversial and highly divisive historical figure, Lenin is viewed by his supporters as a champion of socialism, communism, anti-imperialism and the working class, while his critics accuse him of establishing a totalitarian dictatorship that oversaw mass killings and political repression of dissidents. Early life. Childhood: 1870–1887.
3 days ago · Marxism–Leninism ( Russian: Марксизм-ленинизм, Marksizm-Leninizm) is a communist ideology that became the largest faction of the communist movement in the world in the years following the October Revolution. It was the predominant ideology of most communist governments throughout the 20th century. [1] .
1 day ago · Trotskyism ( Russian: Троцкизм, Trotskizm) is the political ideology and branch of Marxism developed by Russian revolutionary and intellectual [1] [2] Leon Trotsky along with some other members of the Left Opposition and the Fourth International.
4 days ago · The lines of filiation are drawn from Marx/ Engels/ Lenin to Stalin. But there needs to be a sustained discussion of the nature of Bolshevism as a set of political doctrines and practices. Leninism was just one strand of Bolshevism, and Stalin’s thought needs to be seen within the context of the diverse Bolshevik mental universe.
4 days ago · In “Ecology, Politics, and the Crisis of Marxism,” Samuel J. R. Mercer, a member of our editorial board, extends theoretical and political conversations on the humanity-nature problematic via his engagement in the emerging-as-a-zeitgeist humanism versus posthumanism debate. Mercer analyzes two recent academic essays, one published in ...
1 day ago · Mao Zedong (1893-1976) was a great Marxist, proletarian revolutionary, strategist and theorist, and the main founder and leader of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) and the People's Republic of China. He was born into a peasant family on December 26, 1893, in Xiangtan, Hunan Province.
5 days ago · “However terrible and disgusting the dissolution, under the capitalist system, of the old family ties may appear, nevertheless, modern industry, by assigning as it does an important part in the process of production, outside the domestic sphere, to women, to young persons, and to children of both sexes, creates a new economic foundation for a ...
