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Did Lenin follow all of Marx's economic and political policies?
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∙ 14y ago
Lenin stood some of Marx's ideas on their heads. One is that Marx believed there would be an economic revolution of workers (proletariat) against owners of the means of production (bourgeoisie). Once the workers took control of the economy, they would change the prevailing political system by instituting what Marx called the "Dictatorship of the proletariat." It would not be a true dictatorship. It would be a democratic system with workers in control, but it would ensure that all vestiges of the capitalist system were erased.
Lenin created a political revolution, first overthrowing the government of the Tsar and taking political control. Then using governmental power, he changed the economic system from purely capitalist to more socialist by abolishing private property, nationalizing banks and other measures
. Lenin did not accept Marx's view that the proletariat would get so dissatisfied with being oppressed that it would seize control of the economy. Lenin felt that at least at that time, the workers were more likely to accept just a little bigger piece of the profits of the bourgeoisie rather than overthrowing them entirely. Lenin was more right than Marx about that.
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∙ 7y agoLenin and the Bolsheviks abandoned the Marxian idea that the dictatorship of the proletariat would be the natural result of a workers' revolt against capitalism. Russia was not an industrialized nation based on the economic forces of an advanced labor union movement. It did not fit the Marxist model. This calls into doubt the idea that Lenin was a Marxist. It brings to light the charge that he wanted power and absolute power.
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Lenin intended his economic policies to?
reduce government control over the economy.
Why is Lenin remembered?
Lenin is remembered because of the notion he implanted in people; that the meek can still carry out a revolution. A lot of his political policies were based on social justice for all.
List the economic reform Lenin established to gain support?
Lenin went far to allay economic discontent by advocating such policies as affirming the rights of the peasants to own land, by reducing taxes, and by permitting a certain amount of private enterprise in his New Economic Policy
Who was The chief political and economic architect of the 1917 Russian Revolution that created the Soviet Union?
The chief political and economic architect of the 1917 Russian Revolution that created the Soviet Union was Joseph Stalin
What communist idea did Vladimir Lenin take from Karl marx?
Lenin took the idea that the upper class, the bourgeoisie, should not own the means of production; that when capitalism died out an era of socialism would come about with the state owning the means of production; that the working class, the proletariat, would overthrow the ruling bourgeoisie and that eventually the socialistic state would evolve into a communist system. The great difference between them was that where Marx believed economic change caused political change, Lenin believed political change was necessary to effect economic change. In this regard one could say Lenin was simply not as patient as Marx, so he, Lenin, fomented a political revolution which then forced the economic change.
What did Lenin call his economic program?
The New Economic Policy
What was the name of Lenin's plan to rebuild the Russian economy?
Lenin's plan was called the New Economic Policy. It reintroduced some aspects of capitalism into the socialist system Lenin had imposed on the country.
The movement of the Soviet capital from Petrograd St Petersburg to Moscow?
was symbolic of a new period in Russian political and economic history, whose chief architect was V. I. Lenin
What is a Marxist-leninist party?
There can be no such thing as a Marxist-Leninist party, for the simple fact that Lenin was not a Marxist. Marx argued that workers should liberate themselves, but Lenin believed that workers had to follow a vanguard (I.e. himself and other leaders).
What was the modified capitalist system Lenin used to avoid economic disaster?
Lenin called it the "New Economic Policy." It was more of a modification of the socialist system, which Lenin had imposed on the country than a modification of the former capitalist system.
What religion did Vladimir Lenin follow?
He was an Atheist.
The economic policy of the new nations was the theory of?
Lenin
