The Marxist-Leninist Party and Its Role in the Class-War of the Worker

Abstract

When Marx and Engels scientifically established the historical role of the working class, they simultaneously saw that for the transformation of capitalist society to socialism the proletariat necessarily needed a self-sufficient political party. (349) Marx and Engels drew (from the experience of the League of Communists and of the First International, H.F.) many important conclusions on the role of the revolutionary party of the working class, on its organization and policies. Under new historical conditions Lenin developed these conclusions into a structured doctrine on the party. He established the leadership role of the party in the workers’ movement, formulated the principles of organization and the norms of its internal life, as well as the basic principles of its policies and tactics. This doctrine is one of Lenin’s very important contributions to Marxism. (349–350)