Marxism–Leninism

Articles related to Marxism–Leninism, the official state ideology of the Soviet Union (USSR), of the parties of the Communist International after Bolshevisation, and the ideology of Stalinist political parties. The purpose of Marxism–Leninism is the revolutionary transformation of a capitalist state into a socialist state, by way of two-stage revolution, which is led by a vanguard party of professional revolutionaries, drawn from the proletariat. To realise the two-stage transformation of the state, the vanguard party establishes the dictatorship of the proletariat, which determines policy through democratic centralism.