Lenin had a powerful army in the biggest country in the world and Marks had only books and words (and a very clever wife!). The difference is always between theory and how they evolve when they face real life.
All
Lenin had a powerful army in the biggest country in the world and Marks had only books and words (and a very clever wife!). The difference is always between theory and how they evolve when they face real life.
Karl marx was the founder of the idea of socialism. the Russian revolution was to free from the idea being applied.
Lenin believed in the idea of socialism in one country whereas Marx believed in a worldwide revolution. Lenin also believed that revolution would not happen by itself and that it needed a group of revolutionary elite to lead it. Marx believed that all the proletariat would eventually rise and revolt.
Hilding Hagberg has written: 'I Marx-Lenins anda' -- subject(s): Communism
Lenin believed in the idea of socialism in one country whereas Marx believed in a worldwide revolution. Lenin also believed that revolution would not happen by itself and that it needed a group of revolutionary elite to lead it. Marx believed that all the proletariat would eventually rise and revolt.
From the 1870's onwards Marx and Engels steadily became more widely known and influential though it was not until the 1890's when their ideas really started to spread. It would however take the Bolshevik Revolution to make them practically household names.
In the ideas of Karl Marx
Carl Marx
Vladimir Lenin was greatly influenced by the writings of Marx and Engels which led him to bringing communism to Russia. When speaking of major leaders in major countries, we cannot forget Mao Za-Dong of the Peoples Republic of China. ( note, I've seen various spellings of Mao's surname ) The major problem, however,was that they all twisted Marx's ideas to benefit themselves. True Marxists such a Leon Trotsky were either marginalized or executed.
republican
Lenin added the concept that the road to communism did not need to wait for the creation of a proletariat of exploited workers to rise up and seize the means of production. He believed that a properly coordinated centralized group of professional revolutionaries could do so politically and this is exactly what he and the Bolsheviks did in the October Revolution of 1917. The so-called Communist Revolution was not one that Marx had originally envisioned.