In fact, in many ways, Lenin turned Marx on his head by placing politics over economics when he argued that Russia had gone through its capitalist stage of history and was ready for a second ...

This found particular expression in Lenin’s defense of Marxism against different forms of philosophical idealism and subjectivism that threatened to disorient the socialist movement. Lenin’s ...

And they give you war, hunger, no bread—leave the landlords still on the land. . . . We must fight ... was Lenin's personality and tactical skill alone which enabled him, in the name of Marx ...