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Aleksandr Borozdin describes the pros and cons of German Romanticism in the following manner: The Romantics thought it was necessary to study the Middle Ages not out of historical interest alone, but for the practical purpose of rejuvenating the dry, rational atmosphere created by the century of enlightenment for the national revival of Germany.
Leninism (Russian: Ленинизм, Leninizm) is a political ideology developed by Russian Marxist revolutionary 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.
Feminist scholars have criticised the idea of the lack of subjugation of women as suggested from the works of Engels, [82] [5] while Marxist feminists have been critical of and have reassessed Engels' ideas in The Origin of the Family related to the development of women's subjugation in the transition from primitive communism to class society ...
With the advent of a classless society and the abolition of private property, society collectively assume many of the roles traditionally assigned to mothers and wives, with women becoming integrated into industrial work. This has been promoted by Marxism–Leninism as the means to achieve women's emancipation. [189]
She focused her attention on opening up society's allowance of women's liberation from a capitalist and bourgeois control and emphasizing women's suffrage in the working-class. [ 45 ] Critics like Kollontai believed liberal feminism would undermine the efforts of Marxism to improve conditions for the working class.
György Lukács, Minister of Culture in the brief Béla Kun government of the Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919), published History and Class Consciousness (1923), in which he defined dialectical materialism as the knowledge of society as a whole, knowledge which, in itself, was the class consciousness of the proletariat.
The basic fact is clear: the good society must accept men and women as they are. [ 55 ] Edgar Hardcastle responds to this by saying: "They want to work and need no more inducement than is given by the knowledge that work must be done to keep society going, and that they are playing their part in it along with their fellow men and women."
[3]: 30 Lenin argues that understanding politics requires understanding all of society, not just workers and their economic struggles with their employers. Class political consciousness can be brought to the workers only from without ; that is, only from outside the economic struggle, from outside the sphere of relations between workers and ...