Question

Do think lenin and Stalin
intrepreted the marxiest theory
wrongly ? Justify your answers​

Answer 1

Answer:

Lenin's theory is often considered to be a logical development of Marx's in the sense of adding practise to Marx's theory. Yet Marx's own theory was closely tied to practise. Marx, in contrast to Lenin, saw communism as arising from a highly developed capitalism; his theory envisaged a working class that would be able to take on capitalism world-wide or face further defeats.

Lenin's analysis proceeds from the assumption that a minority working class in Russia (and soon thereafter the Soviet Union) would be able to inspire workers and peasants in other countries to seize state power - and not abolish the state as in Marx's analysis and political thought - and gradually, by power of persuasion and violence, bring the other - often hostile - classes round to joining the struggle for communism.

Thesis: Lenins's analysis represents a rupture with Marx's. It proceeds from very different assumptions about social classes and their behaviour, their relationship to the state, and the prospects of minorities gaining power and introducing social changes with political and, if need be, violent means.

Marx's assumption is that the working class will be powerful because of its numerical superiority combined with its ability to control the most vital sectors of industry: the struggle becomes one of social power in the broadest sense against political power in the narrower sense (as state power). It is not based on one or two underdeveloped states (Lenin had, of course, hoped that a relatively advanced Germany - albeit one crippled by war and dictated to by the Entente, of which the USA was already the major force - would be able to tip the scales. By the time of his death he realised that the chances of any further move towards socialism [let along communism] were declining rapidly. See his Speeches at the Party Congresses, where he admits one wrong decision after another.