Marx, Lenin and Communism

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Marx, Lenin and Communism

• Ideas behind the political system of Communism

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Family Tree
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When will the revolution come?
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When will the revolution come

• Marx when capitalism can achieve no more
• Bakunin when we make it
• Lenin War and from Germany
• Stalin War and from above
• Mao protracted war

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Where will the revolution come?

• Marx most advanced
• Bakunin where we make it
• Bernstein it wont. democracy fine
• Lenin semi-colonies
• Mao rural areas
• Stalin East Europe

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How will the revolution come?

• Marx Spontaneous uprising of the working class
• Bakunin violence
• Lenin party coup
• Mao protracted guerilla war
• Stalin liberation by Red Army

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What is the revolution for?

• Marx end of alienation
• Bakunin Beethoven
• Lenin start the real revolution
• Trotsky permanent revolution
• Stalin socialism in one country
• Mao China

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Who makes the revolution?

• Marx the proletariat
• Bakunin everyone
• Lenin the party
• Mao the peasants
• Stalin me

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Communism main theorists
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Stalinism v Revisionism

• End justifies the means
• monopoly of truth
• single candidate elections
• state monopolies
• measurement by achieving plan
• state controls society

• Human rights must be respected
• participation
• competitive elections
• market driven retail sector Bukharin
• measurement by profit
• independent civil society

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5 Elements of Stalinism

• Collectivisation of agriculture
• centrally planned state owned economy
• coercion/terror
• single vanguard party
• policy by ideology

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Was Stalin really necessary?

• Article and book by A.Nove
• No revolution in Germany what do we do?
• Socialism in one country
• Party represents working class create one!
• Industrialise rapidly
• Peasants counter revolutionarychange them
• War inevitable kill fifth column

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Cost benefit analysis of Stalin

• Education for all
• social mobility
• industrialisation
• strong military
• won WWII
• strong sense of identity

• Deaths
• Imprisonments
• Intellectual stifling
• Agricultural bottleneck
• Overcentralised
• Consumers?
• Ethnic minorities