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Sheu. ERO rae Et emcee REE . + oe £t me . F: - oS ie . ) . Se OF LEKINISN In the interview below Stclin refers to Leninism as Merz ian 2 Of the epooh of imperialism and proleterien revolutionae"™ Poe This epoch was brought into existence by two events: Wold War I piwer ¢ “nd the Russian Revolution of 1617. World Yer I clearly demon- — ie te Strated thet the entire vorld had been touched by the exnanston Bsa of cavitalism The World Yer represertec tie first battle in ELE which the combitents wera Sighting over how to divide up the eee weclth, resources, and territory of the whole Dlanete It was ae a the culmination of the develooment or canitelism into a worldwide ae systembf imperialism. : § The advent of immerialism changed tre neture of any revolution | which occurred after this period. Eefore this tine it was possible " for bourgeois revolutions auch as that in the Usa. in 1776 to Pee! ocuure In this type of bourgeois revolution the bourgeosie of pF we the rebelling nation could in fact create a stute wich weg aS capitalist, but not ciigned with any imosrlal povere Once fay imperialism Lecame @ world sysiem any country that engeced orn in revolution had to either be anti-imperialist in focus or a merely interested in exchan;in: one form of being leckeys to a impcriclists for another. This also meant that any country which staged an anti-imerielist revolution was by nature siding with Re the international proletarian rovolution. The Russian Revolution So eae provided the model for vroletarian revolution and because of its unique geo;ranhical vosition provided a link ‘“etveen the proletcriat of Western furove and the strug ling oppressed nations of the Baste : Lenin ccncretely defined his time as the age of Imoerialism | in his wort: of 1916, Im:ericliem, the Hirhest Biase of Sunitelism. He \as, however, even mora noted for his deteiled analysis of how @ revolution should be organized. Lenin wes uncompromising on to points which wsre sources of greet debat auonset socialists of his tines 1) the lecding force of the revolution must be a vancuard party comprised of professionel ravolutionaries. The party nust represent the interests of the vrolz’ ariat and must hve a sincle politics] line rather than be a conzlomeration of people with aifferent points of view. 2) revolution could only ‘ be achieved throuch violently overthrowin: the governzent and Pena setting uo the dictatorshivo of the oroleturtet. It could not oe. be achieved throuzh economic and electoral reforn. ene = emp os alia le tals a lest ksh ca: ttl RON AN Ps > @ be 5200 PF Q2122 Reading: Lenin's Zontribution to Marxism -- interview with Stalin Otuer Reading: State and Revolution -- Lenin -- Els most fs mous work in Which he outlines the need for violent overthrow of the cov't and presents e tlueortnt for a comcunist societye 120 pp. Imperialism, the Hishest Stage of Canitaligsm -- Lenin -- A simnoly written outline of the structure of imperialisi:s Lenin's defining of his ti.e as the ecroch of imocrinliem in this work is why the Weather Underground continually emphasizes that our time is the ere of imnerialism on the decline. 100 pp. what Zs To Be Done -- Lenin““This book contains the details of he Lenin's theories on orj:anization of the vancuard partys - It elso contains Lon; polemics evainst opvortunisn, an economism, and terroriame 1cO pp. . . Foundations of Lentniem -- St: lin -- 186 oo. A more detailed dis- 7 cussion Oo. the voints co-'ersd in the interview,