What is Leninism?
Leninism is a far-left, highly authoritarian current of communism. It argues that a disciplined vanguard party should seize the state and use it to socialise production, suppress rival politics, and direct society toward a classless order.
Core principles
- Vanguard party leadership
- State ownership of industry
- Political centralisation
On the PoliMap chart this cell runs from -10 to -6 on the economic axis and 6 to 10 on the social axis. Negative economic scores are left; positive social scores are authoritarian.
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