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Leninism

Modification of Marxism by Lenin which argues that in a revolutionary situation the industrial proletariat is unable to develop a truly revolutionary consciousness without strong leadership.

The responsibility for this is taken on by the Communist Party, which acts as the ‘vanguard of the proletariat’ in leading it to revolution, before then assuming political control in a dictatorship of the proletariat. Only when the proletariat achieves a full socialist awareness will the power of the party, and ultimately the state itself, wither away.



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Instead of coalescing as a single Marxist Leninist revolutionary vanguard, the various "pre-party" groupings peeled off and each established its own, true variant of Marxism-Leninism: the Revolutionary Communist Party, Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist), Communist Workers' Party, Democratic Workers' Party, Communist Labor Party, Communist Party USA (Marxist-Leninist), and Line of March, to name some of the more prominent sects.
Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che by Barber, David / Journal of Social History
It has existed everywhere a Leninist party with the mission of "building socialism" has taken power, that socialism requiring the suppression of private property and the market in favor of institutional dictatorship and a command economy.
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While liberal advocacy groups are rarely Leninist, U.
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