Vladimir Lenin
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Lenin wrote State and Revolution in 1917, while he was hiding from the Russian secret police. The book describes the inherent nature of the State as, a tool for class oppression, a creation born of one social class's desire, to control all other social classes.
Drawing on detailed quotes from Karl Marx and Friedrick Engels, Lenin lays down a Marxist view of the state, describes how a working-class revolution will overthrow it, and goes further in...
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Vladimir Ilich Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, originally published in 1916, was one of the first attempts to account for the increasing importance of the world market in the twentieth century. The essay is a synthesis of Lenin's modifications and developments of economic theories that Karl Marx formulated in 'Das Kapital'. This remarkable Marxist text explains fully the inescapable flaws and destructive power of Capitalism.
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La singularidad y relevancia de Lenin como líder revolucionario se asocia a menudo con la toma del poder en 1917. Sin embargo, tal como argumenta Slavoj Žižek en este nuevo estudio y recopilación de textos originales de Lenin, es en sus dos últimos años de vida política donde mejor se aprecia la verdadera talla de este político irrepetible. Rusia había sobrevivido a una invasión extranjera, al embargo y a una guerra civil desgarradora, por...
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El enorme impacto de la Revolución rusa hizo que en los partidos socialdemócratas de toda Europa comenzasen a surgir agrupaciones de izquierdas, que acabaron convirtiéndose en los diferentes partidos comunistas, atrayendo a millones de trabajadores que empezaban a ver posible la construcción de otro mundo, sin desigualdad y pobreza. Sin embargo, la falta de experiencia de los jóvenes dirigentes comunistas provocaba que siguieran una política...
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¿Puede desligarse la causa de la emancipación de la mujer de toda la lucha por la causa obrera, de toda la lucha por el socialismo? Evidentemente, la respuesta debe ser negativa. Precisamente porque existe una vinculación muy estrecha entre toda la lucha de la clase obrera y la mejora de la situación de la mujer, Lenin se detuvo con frecuencia en sus discursos y artículos a examinar esta última cuestión, y cada una de sus opiniones guarda una...
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Tras regresar del exilio, Lenin pronunció el 4 de abril en Petrogrado el discurso que dio el pistoletazo de salida a lo que sería la Revolución de Octubre. El objetivo estaba claro, conseguir todo el poder para los soviets de obreros y campesinos, y Lenin ofreció las herramientas para conquistarlo.
Las famosas Tesis de abril suponen el análisis más lúcido y contundente que se haya hecho sobre los desposeídos rusos. Son, también, un programa...
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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia, and later the Soviet Union, became a one-party socialist state governed by the Communist Party. Ideologically a Marxist, his developments to the ideology are called...
9) Imperialism
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Written in 1916 against the backdrop of the First World War, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism explains the flaws and power of capitalism, which inevitably lead to monopolies, imperialism and colonialism. Lenin develops Marx's theories of political economy, which had been put forward 50 years earlier in Das Kapital. He goes on to argue that imperialism is the most advanced state of capitalism, characterised by the domination of monopolies...
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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by his alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia and then the wider Soviet Union became a one-party communist state governed by the Russian Communist Party. Ideologically a communist, he developed a variant of Marxism known as Leninism.
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Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution is one of the most important of Lenin's early writings. It was written in June and July 1905, while the Russian Revolution of 1905 was taking place. Lenin's preface poses these questions: "in educating and organizing the working class... where should we place the main political emphasis in this work of education and organization? On the trade unions and legally existing associations, or...
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Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin were influential figures in the history of socialism and communism. Karl Marx, a German philosopher, economist, and political theorist, provided the foundation for socialist and communist ideologies. His critical analysis of capitalism, as outlined in works like "Das Kapital" and "The Communist Manifesto," revolutionized social and economic theory. Marx emphasized the exploitative nature of capitalism and argued for the...
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La presente recopilación recoge una serie de textos de Marx, Engels y Lenin sobre la Comuna de París. Desde La guerra civil en Francia de Karl Marx, hasta el trabajo de Lenin "En memoria de la Comuna", los "clásicos" del materialismo dialéctico e histórico reflexionan sobre un excepcional acontecimiento político: la primera revolución genuinamente proletaria. Sus reflexiones sobre el suceso nutrirían el acervo teórico del marxismo, especialmente...
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Communism is a left-wing to far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society. Communist society also involves the absence of private property, social classes, money, and the state. Communists...