A vanguard party represents future and national needs beyond its immediate class

Evidence

In American Marxism, Lenin had largely replaced Marx as the definitive revolutionary thinker by the early 1920s. Where Marx had anticipated and depended upon the rise of class consciousness, Lenin had posited the party in its stead. For Lenin, the party, a small group of trained, disciplined, and professional revolutionists, constituted a necessary first stage in the development of the dictatorship of the proletariat. The party would deliberately and scientifically create the conditions for the evolution of worker consciousness and for socialism. Where Marx had presumed that a bourgeois society established by a bourgeois revolution was a necessary condition for the evolution of a conscious socialist movement. Lenin, in April of 1917, would declare that the process had been completed in Russia in less than three months. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1120 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Lenin replaced class consciousness with the vanguard party in revolutionary theory — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1120; A party can function as a general ideology superintending scattered rival groups; Future-oriented discourse evades present political participation

Related

• Lenin replaced class consciousness with the vanguard party in revolutionary theory (similarity 0.89)
• Lenin’s vanguard-party doctrine excluded opposition from within the Left (similarity 0.88)
• Lenin substituted the party for the rise of class consciousness (similarity 0.85)
• Lenin’s anti-left-opportunism doctrine legitimized Communist accommodation with capitalism (similarity 0.81)
• The petit bourgeois intelligentsia dominated Marxist theory and the Bolshevik revolution (similarity 0.80)
• Lenin silenced opposition by branding all dissent as counter-revolutionary (similarity 0.80)
• Lenin held that the proletariat spontaneously develops only trade-union, not revolutionary, consciousness (similarity 0.80)
• Lenin held that the working class alone could only achieve trade-union consciousness (similarity 0.79)
• Revolutionary leadership comes disproportionately from those privileged by the system they attack (similarity 0.79)
• A revolutionary crisis needs a vanguard party already formed to exploit it (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Lenin replaced class consciousness with the vanguard party in revolutionary theory #expands (0.85) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1120
• A party can function as a general ideology superintending scattered rival groups #expands (0.80)
• Future-oriented discourse evades present political participation #complicates (0.75)