Lenin 's Critical Study Of Populism

Lenin’s criticism of Populism was an important activity after he was on the political stage and had a significant influence on Russia. Lenin’s criticism of Populism had its profound social and historical background and it was the result of both subjective and objective conditions. On the objective aspects, with the development of world capitalism and the rise of the workers’movement, the Russian capitalism and the workers’movement had also got preliminary development; traditional Russian rural commune was in danger of collapse. On the subjective aspects, in order to criticize Populism, Lenin made a lot of theoretical work and carried out a series of revolutionary practice activities.By doing deeply research and writing Marx’works, Lenin made a comprehensive and profound criticism of Populist and seized the four main fallacies of Populist that they thought capitalism can damage the development of Russia and wanted to realize socialist system on the development of peasant commune socialism. They also regarded sharing the wealth equally was more important than political freedom and considered individual ACTS of terrorism as a major means of struggle, basically crushed the theoretical basis of Populist. While in the process of criticizing, in Lenin’s early days, there were deviations in understanding farmers and he excessively expanded the Russian capitalism and the proletariat, even considered populism which adhered to the specificity of Russia as irresistible heritage to discard, but he analyzed the reality of the Russian social and economic objectively and comprehensively. It was a model which connected Marxism and the Russia’s specific conditions well. He also founded the organizational principle of the proletarian party, enriched the Marxist theory of party building.Lenin’s criticism of populist left many precious thoughts for future generations, such as how to deal with the relationship between adhering to Marxism and developing Marxism, the relationship between farmers and the socialist revolution and construction as well as the relationship between capitalism and socialism, left us with a profound revelation.