Marxism and the Leninist Revolutionary Model
William J. Davidshofer
Language: English
Pages: 206
ISBN: B01A64OOPQ
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
In this volume, William Davidshofer sets forth an insightful comparative analysis of Marxist and Leninist revolutionary theory. Beginning with the influence of the Hegel's dialectic and the political propositions of historical materialism on Communist cadre rule in the socialist state, the study goes on to explore Lenin's interpretation of the Marxist texts that led to his new and distinct theory of socialist revolution. Paying special attention to Marx's theory of the overaccumulation of capital and that theory's impact on Leninist Russia's struggle for national self-determination, the text comprises an invaluable contribution to existing scholarship in the field.
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2014-10-12 CHAPTER 3 intellectual grasp of historical materialism that equipped it to direct the immediate existential economic consciousness of the rank-andfile members of the working class to follow a correct socialist strategy in the revolutionary movement. The Manifesto was therefore directed toward the most advanced theoretical elements of the working classes in Germany, Belgium, France, and England, who identified themselves as Communists. Marx writes: The Communists, therefore, are on
In this work, Lenin set forth the following pronouncements of his Bolshevik political opposition to any form of Marxist collaboration in an imperialist world war. In explanation as to why the Second International did not carry out the injunctions of the Stuttgart and Basle Resolutions to use the war to promote the overthrow of their own imperialist governments, Lenin cited the “common economic basis” of “opportunism” and “socialchauvinism.” The “common economic basis” of “opportunism” and
production in the advanced capitalist countries; (2) the merging of bank capital and industrial capital in the form of “finance capital” as the ultimate instrument of such monopolistic concentration; (3) the export of capital as distinguished from the export of commodities; (4) the formation of rival international capitalist cartels to share the worldwide export of capital among themselves; and (5) the completed territorial division of the colonial world among the biggest capitalist powers.16
degree in the epoch of imperialism.”35 The February Revolution in Russia and Lenin’s Commentary from Abroad Under mounting military and economic stress of the war and incompetent Tsarist political rule, Soviets again arose on February 26 (March 11), 1917, first in Petrograd, then Moscow, and then throughout European Russia, as what Lenin characterized in 1915 as “organs of insurrection, of revolutionary rule.” Parallel to the Soviets, which held underlying political power, a Provisional
socialist democracy under Communist Party cadre political rule. The Bolsheviks accounted for only 168 of the 703 delegates, while the regular SocialistRevolutionary party under Victor Chernov alone accounted for 380 delegates. The regular Socialist-Revolutionary Party along with the Kadet and Octobrist Parties held to the principle of the alternation of political majorities in government power underlying Western parliamentary democracy. When, therefore, it became obvious that the Constituent