... arose at the London Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Party in 1903, Lenin and his following split away from the Mensheviks who were the classical Marxists and formed the Bolshevik Party. The Mensheviks "took the logical position in the Soviet of 1917 that it was premature to attempt to implement Marxism in the Russia of that time for the ... "revolutionary democratic dictatorship of the proletariat."" If Marx's theory "that government is an instrument of exploitation and that capitalism drives society to two extremes- holds true then his philosophy of revolution "was both perfec...

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