Revolutionary situation

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In the terms of Leninism or Marxism-Leninism, a revolutionary situation is the trigger of a revolution in which the "open indignation of the exploited masses" breaks out. Such a situation necessarily includes objective features that cannot be artificially brought about by a party or group, but are a consequence of the impoverishment , murder or disenfranchisement of very large sections of the population or even the majority of the population. The term is part of the theory of revolution .

Examples for Lenin are:

main features

According to Lenin, the three "objective characteristics" of a revolutionary situation are :

  1. “The impossibility for the ruling classes to maintain their rule unchanged; this or that crisis of the 'tops', a crisis of the politics of the ruling class, which creates a rift through which the discontent and indignation of the oppressed classes emerges. "
  2. "Exacerbation of the need and misery of the oppressed classes beyond the usual level."
  3. "Considerable increase in the activity of the masses , derived from the causes mentioned , which, through the circumstances of the crisis, are drawn to [...] independent historical action."

In addition, Lenin developed What to Do? also a doctrine of the "subjective characteristics" of the revolutionary situation, by means of which an objectively emerging revolution could be accelerated: z. B. by building a proletarian party ready to take the lead. Lenin and the Bolsheviks put his teachings into practice, see Russian Revolution and October Revolution .

Lenin is often quoted with the following sentence: "There is a revolutionary situation when those above can no longer and those below no longer want".

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  1. ↑ Lenin: The Collapse of the Second International . Pp. 11f., Prot. I, 633

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