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Leninism

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Len·in·ism  (ln-nzm)
n.
The theory and practice of proletarian revolution as developed by Lenin.

Lenin·ist adj. & n.
Lenin·ite (ln-nt) adj. & n.

Leninism
the political doctrines of Vladimir llich Ulyanov (Lenin), founder of Bolshevism, architect of the current Soviet government, originator of the Comintern, and author of the imperative that the Soviets lead the proletariat of other nations to revolution and communism. — Leninist, Leninite, n., adj.
See also: Communism
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Noun1.Leninism - the political and economic theories of Lenin which provided the guiding doctrine of the Soviet Union; the modification of Marxism by Lenin stressed that imperialism is the highest form of capitalism (which shifts the struggle from developed to underdeveloped countries)
communism - a political theory favoring collectivism in a classless society

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Such exultant poems as "The International Spirit," written in the year that McKay published his best-selling black proletarian novel, Home to Harlem (1928)--the same year that the Comintern's Sixth World Congress passed a resolution that African Americans in the US South constituted an "oppressed nation"--contest the orthodoxy that McKay chucked Leninism during the early 1920s.
The notion of a neo-liberal, Foucauldian Leninism may seem like a wild contradiction in terms, but only because it confounds expectations built around Western models of development.
In Vietnam, we were making a stand against the communists to prevent the spread of Marxist Leninism.
 
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