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HEARNAP — Part 41
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LENINIor
In the intervie: below Budin ref-rs to Leninism as Marxism
f the sooeh of dmerinlisn ano orotetcrion revolutions."
his @noch wes brouvht into existenee hy tvo events: Yoild ver I
i the sussian Rovolution of Th17-. Norld viexr I clearly demon=
Strated thet the entire verld lind been touched by the expansion
of capitalism. The “orld Yer reoresentec the Tirst bat¢le din’
which the combatants vere righting over how to divide un the
werlth, resources, and territory of the whbdle planete It war
the culminition of the develowent of cavitalism into a worldwide
Systeme imnertetisne
The advent of invertalisn ecbanyed tra neture of any revolution
which occurred efter this pertod. Before this tine 4t wan vpssible
for vourgeots revolutious such as thet tu the Uede in 17765 to
Supe Th thia type of bourgeois revolution the bourz:cosie of
the rebelling nation could in fnet ereate a atate wich wag
Capitalist, but not sVigned with any imeerial povers Once
lmaertalinn Leenne a vorld Sysvom any country that enpaped
“in revolution bed to either te onti-iaperialist in focus or
Mese*y interéetcd itn exehencin: one worm of bet; lxckeys to
laoertelists for another. This alne -eant that any country which
Stecec an anti-immoriclist revolution vas by noture siding: vith
the internetion:] prol.tarion r volution. The Russian Revolution
provided the model for oroletorian revolution ond because or
lic unique ceo:ranhienl nosition provided a link ‘etveen the
proletrcriat of Yestern Eurose end the strug; Ling oppressed
nations of the Easte ;
Tenin ecneretely defined bis tine es the eye of imperialism
in his wort of 1916, Im.eriolism, the Hichest Since OF Svnitalion.
ie van, bovever, even tore nolea for bia deteilea onalysis or
nov A Kovolution should be orcunized. Lenin wes uncomp: ditis ing
on to points whith wore sources of urest dobat auon st socialists
of his thiiot 1) the luzding foree of thc rovolution must be a
vonuuard party comprised of profengionel revolutionaries. The
porty must represent the interests of the prolo‘artat ond must
heve a single politice1 Line rithor than be a con: lomeration of
yeorle with aisforent points of view. 2) revolution could only
be achieved throuch violently overthrovin:: the governient and
setting vw» the dictator:hiv of the oroletarint. It could not
be achieved throush economle and oloectoral reform.
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weiiten owlline of the structure of inperinlian.se Lenin's
definine of his ti.e as the eroch of imperialism tn this
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