Where does Vladimir Lenin sit on the political compass?
Bolshevik revolutionary leader
Vladimir Lenin is placed at -9.8 economically (left) and +5.2 socially (authoritarian). That coordinate falls in the Trotskyism cell.
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Portrait: Pavel Semyonovich Zhukov (1870-1942), Public domain. Source.
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Closest ideology
Trotskyism Trotskyism is a communist tendency that keeps Leninist party politics but stresses international revolution, workers' democracy against bureaucracy, and opposition to 'socialism in one country'. It is economically far left and socially authoritarian, less so than the cells above it.
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