Leninism

//ˈlɛnɪnɪzm̩// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A political ideology developed by Vladimir Lenin that proposes the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat led by a revolutionary vanguard party, as the political prelude to the establishment of communism. uncountable, usually
  2. 2
    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) wordnet

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"Back in 1967, with the revolution in its infancy, this reporter visited China's Great Wall and captured on film the smiling young people whose enthusiastic embrace of Marxism, Leninism and Maoism was the revolution's key force."

Etymology

From Lenin + -ism, named after Vladimir Lenin.

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