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With Lenin now based in Geneva, the arguments between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks continued after the conference. The Bolsheviks accused their rivals of being opportunists and reformists who lacked any discipline, while the Mensheviks accused Lenin of being a despot and autocrat, comparing him to Maximilien de Robespierre. [43]
Various historians and biographers have characterised Lenin's administration as a police state, [527] and many have described it as a one-party dictatorship, [528] and Lenin as a dictator. [529] Ryan stated that he was "not a dictator in the sense that all his recommendations were accepted and implemented", for many of his colleagues disagreed ...
Based upon the First International (IWA, International Workingmen's Association, 1864–1876), Lenin organised the Bolsheviks as a democratically centralised vanguard party; wherein free political speech was recognised as legitimate until policy consensus; afterwards, every member of the party was expected to abide by the agreed policy ...
The concept was introduced by Vladimir Lenin in 1913, in his article "Маёвка революционного пролетариата" [1] (Mayovka of the Revolutionary Proletariat). In the article two conditions for a revolutionary situation were described, which were later succinctly phrased as "the bottoms don't want and the tops cannot ...
The party's centralised and hierarchical organisational structure is based on democratic centralism, which was conceived by Vladimir Lenin. [21] [22] This structure entails that lower party organs obey the decisions of the higher ones, such as the LPRP Central Committee. [22] It also entails a ban on internal party factions. [22]
Revolutionary defeatism is a concept made most prominent by Vladimir Lenin in World War I. It is based on the Marxist idea of class struggle. Arguing that the proletariat could not win or gain when fighting a war under capitalism, Lenin declared its true enemy is the imperialist leaders who sent their lower classes into battle. Workers would ...
Bukele’s reign has all the hallmarks of an autocrat—he even welcomes the associations, trolling his critics by branding his social media accounts as the “world’s coolest dictator.”
Lenin has been variously described as "the century's most significant political leader", [295] "one of the undeniably outstanding figures of modern history" [296] and one of the 20th century's "principal actors" [297] as well as "one of the most widespread, universally recognizable icons of the twentieth century" [298] and "one of the most ...