Marxism-Leninism is the scientific revolutionary doctrine based around the works of Marx and Engels, developed by Lenin and put to practice by the October Revolution in 1917, it is as well characterized by the defense of Josef Stalin as a revolutionary figure who played a major role in some of the most critical moments in the history of the worker's movement. The objective of Marxism-Leninism is simple, to guide the forces of labour in their inevitable victory against capital.
Key theoretical aspects of Marxism-Leninism are:
- The philosophical foundations of Marxism-Leninism are Historical and Dialectical Materialism, whereas Marxist political-economy serves as it's scientific foundation.
- Proletarian Revolution and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat must be carried out and lead by a vanguard party composed by the most advanced and class counscious elements amongst the working class. Alliances with other potentially revolutionary classes such as the peasantry must be made if historical necessity calls for it.
- Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism, consequently it is in the interest of all revolutionaries the victory of national-liberation struggles in oppressed countries as a way to undermine world bourgeois rule.
- Marxism-Leninism dismisses all attempts to discredit legitimate revolutionary organisations, countries and historical figures, no matter if they are waged by so-called communists or open advocates of capitalism. Thus it rejects the Orthodox Marxism of the Second International, Trotskyism, Left-Communism and Anarchism as either ultra-leftist or rightist deviations.