Comparing Vladimir Lenin s Eyes And A Capitalist Society

The popular, the majority, the working class, the predominant, the masses. There are countless terms available to describe who has the most socio-political power, the most weathered; the proletariats. In Vladimir Lenin’s eyes, in a capitalist society a proletariat is the term used to describe the working class, the class that does not have ownership of any means of production(land and capital) and whose sole income source derives from labor. The minority, who own the majority of the wealth, the means of production, and the means of coercion(law enforcement and legal system). In a capitalist society, the bourgeoisie exploit the proletariats. Only the bourgeoisie could afford the means of production, therefore they control the proletariat’s†¦show more content†¦They would prohibit any Soviet that had a capitalist agenda from gaining any socio-political power, therefore creating the first completely proletarian government, made by and for the working class. Anoth er example of where this method was applied is the Chinese Communist Revolution. Qu Lindong, a prominent Chinese historian at the University of Beijing, describes â€Å"Marxism as the dominant outlook in[Chinese] history.† In fact, the Chinese Revolution was championed by Mao Zedong, a devout believer in the Marxism-Leninism revolutionary theories, whom attempted to apply the techniques used by Lenin in the Russian Revolution, adapted slightly to fit China’s socio-political needs, to his own nation. Both of these revolution’s occurred for the same reason; the majority’s exasperation in their respective, unequal social structure. Essentially, the working class got tired of being exploited and suppressed by the ruling class, and decided to take a stand against them, as one unit. The Chinese Revolution was similar to the Russian Revolution because, once capitalism reigned globally supreme, the only type of revolt that could occur is the overthrow of capitali sm by the conscious revolutionary acts of the proletariat. Therefore, almost all revolutions are based on class conflict and