HIS250Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Mensheviks, April Theses, Saint Petersburg
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Elite party" in 1903, the social democratic party had split into mensheviks/bolsheviks: bolsheviks wanted a small centralized party of elites, mensheviks wanted to organize a mass-based party. Democratic centralism = the leninist organizational system in which policy is decided centrally and is binding on all members. Marxism leninism = political ideology, with the goal being the development of a socialist state through the leadership of a revolutionary vanguard composed of professional revolutionaries. It would be the result of a dialectic of class struggle: the socialist state would represent a dictatorship of the. Lenin believed in revolutionary justice", ie: using violence to proletariat" secure revolution.
