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LENIN150 (SAMIZDAT) REVIEW

  LENIN150 (SAMIZDAT) REVIEW By Lewis Maghanga Leninism is Marxism in the era of imperialism and Proletarian revolution. More precisely, it is the theory and tactics of the proletarian revolution in general and the theory and tactics of the dictatorship of the proletariat in particular.   (Stalin, 1924) With the understanding of this definition of Leninism, it becomes easy to see the relevance of Lenin’s thoughts and ideas in our organising today. The immediate tasks of revolutionary activists today, in the midst of the massive global economic crisis, the ongoing life-threatening COVID-19 pandemic, the worsening standards of living and the growing inequality due to neoliberalism revolve around the unification of our popular struggles into an international campaign against the capitalist system and the forging of an international revolutionary vanguard to spearhead the working-class struggle for a better society. If, as has become even more apparent now under the curr...