What are the principles of communism according to Lenin?

Lenin only had one principle, and it was a principle which was not grounded in an understanding of communism. And that was the capture of political power by a minority. read more

Also, the political party that spawned the Bolshevik Revolution, effectively introducing communism in Russia; Mensheviks: By definition, "minority," although this Russian party had many more supporters than the Bolsheviks when Lenin returned to Russia in 1917. Reds: Communist/Bolshevik supporters. read more

As a political-science term, Leninism entered common usage in 1922, after infirmity ended Lenin's participation in governing the Russian Communist Party. Two years later, in July 1924, at the fifth congress of the Communist International, Grigory Zinoviev popularized the term Leninism to denote "vanguard-party revolution". read more

Still considering Principles of Communism as a preliminary draft, Engels expressed the view, in a letter to Marx dated November 23-24 1847, that it would be best to drop the old catechistic form and draw up a programme in the form of a manifesto. read more