Does anyone have information of Leninism??

Question

I am not really interested in the backround. Instead the main point, what they believe their main ideas. thank you.

Answer 1

One of the central concepts of Leninism is the view that imperialism is the highest stage of the capitalist economic system. Lenin developed a theory of imperialism aimed to improve and update Marx's work by explaining a phenomenon which Marx predicted: the shift of capitalism towards becoming a global system (hence the slogan "Workers of the world, unite!"). At the core of this theory of imperialism lies the idea that advanced capitalist industrial nations increasingly come to export capital to captive colonial countries. They then exploit those colonies for their resources and investment opportunities. This superexploitation of poorer countries allows the advanced capitalist industrial nations to keep at least some of their own workers content, by providing them with slightly higher living standards. (See labor aristocracy; globalization.)

For these reasons, Lenin argued that a proletarian revolution could not occur in the developed capitalist countries as long as the global system of imperialism remained intact. Thus, he believed that a lesser-developed country would have to be the location of the first proletarian revolution. A particularly good candidate, in his view, was Russia - which Lenin considered to be the "weakest link" in global capitalism at the time.[citation needed] At the time, Russia's economy was primarily agrarian (outside of the large cities of St. Petersburg and Moscow), still driven by peasant manual and animal labor, and very underdeveloped compared to the industrialized economies of western Europe and North America.

However, if the revolution could only start in a poor, underdeveloped country, this posed a challenge: According to Marx, such an underdeveloped country would not be able to develop a socialist system (in Marxist theory, socialism is the stage of development that comes after capitalism but before communism), because capitalism hasn't run its full course yet in that country, and because foreign powers will try to crush the revolution at any cost. To solve this problem, Leninism proposes two possible solutions.

One option would be for the revolution in the underdeveloped country to spark off a revolution in a developed capitalist nation. The developed country would then establish socialism and help the underdeveloped country do the same. Lenin hoped that the Russian Revolution would spark a revolution in Germany; indeed it did, but the German uprisings were quickly suppressed. (see Spartacist League and Bavarian Soviet Republic)

Another option would be for the revolution to happen in a large number of underdeveloped countries at the same time or in quick succession; the underdeveloped countries would then join together into a federal state capable of fighting off the great capitalist powers and establishing socialism. This was the original idea behind the foundation of the Soviet Union. What differentiates this from Maoism is that under Leninism, even in the underdeveloped countries, the urban proletariat remains the main source of revolution.

Answer 2

http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/index.htm

http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/index.htm

http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/sw/index.htm

http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/index.htm

Contents
PREFACE 187
PREFACE TO THE FRENCH AND GERMAN EDITIONS 189
I. CONCENTRATION OF PRODUCTION AND MONOPOLIES 196
II. BANKS AND THEIR NEW ROLE 210
III. FINANCE CAPITAL AND THE FINANCIAL OLIGARCHY 226
IV. EXPORT OF CAPITAL 240
V. DIVISION OF THE WORLD AMONG CAPITALIST ASSOCIATIONS 246
VI. DIVISION OF THE WORLD AMONG THE GREAT POWERS 254
VII. IMPERIALISM AS A SPECIAL STAGE OF CAPITALISM 265
VIII. PARASITISM AND DECAY OF CAPITALISM 276
IX. CRITIQUE OF IMPERIALISM 285
X. THE PLACE OF IMPERIALISM IN HISTORY 298