Lenin’s post-1917 turn shifted socialism from the Commune model to global revolution.

Evidence

It is noticeable that up to 1905 he thought of socialism always in terms of the Commune. And after 1917 he changed—he changed not for Russia but for the world. … For if we had we would recognize in Lenin’s articles and methods in Russia of 1917–23 the greatest possible source of theoretical understanding and insight into the world of today. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2451

Categorization

• XREF: Relates to James’s use of Lenin across Notes on Dialectics and the wider Black radical re-reading of Soviet theory.