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Lenin's ideological contributions to the Marxist ideology relate to his theories on the party, imperialism, the state, and revolution. [1] The function of the Leninist vanguard party is to provide the working classes with the political consciousness (education and organisation) and revolutionary leadership necessary to depose capitalism. [2]
Ludwig Feuerbach, who separated philosophy from religion to allow philosophers the freedom to interpret the material reality of nature. In training as a philosopher in the early 19th century, Karl Marx participated in debates about the philosophy of religion, specifically about the interpretations presented in Hegelianism, i.e. "What is ...
Vanguardism, a core concept of Leninism, is the idea that a revolutionary vanguard party, composed of the most conscious and disciplined workers, must lead the proletariat in overthrowing capitalism and establishing socialism, ultimately progressing to communism.
In The Attitude of the Workers’ Party to Religion, Lenin wrote: Religion is the opium of the people—this dictum by Marx is the corner-stone of the whole Marxist outlook on religion. Marxism has always regarded all modern religions and churches, and each and every religious organisation, as instruments of bourgeois reaction that serve to ...
a) Nature is a unified whole. b) Nature is in perpetual motion. c) Natural quantitative change leads to qualitative change. d) Natural phenomena possess internal contradictions as part of their struggle, leading to revolutionary rather than reformist change.
The history of philosophy and the history of social science show with perfect clarity that there is nothing resembling “sectarianism” in Marxism, in the sense of its being a hidebound, petrified doctrine, a doctrine which arose away from the high road of the development of world civilisation.
Lenin and Trotsky were close ideologically and personally during the Russian Revolution and its aftermath. Trotskyists and some others call Trotsky its "co-leader". [note 1] [21] This was also alluded to by Rosa Luxemburg. [22] Lenin himself never mentioned the concept of "Trotskyism" after Trotsky became a member of the Bolshevik party. [23]
Lenin deals with left and right Kant criticism, with the philosophy of immanence, Bogdanov's empiriomonism, and the critique of Hermann von Helmholtz on the "theory of symbols." Chapter V The Latest Revolution in Science and Philosophical Idealism. Lenin deals with the thesis that "the crisis of physics" "has disappeared matter".