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Why do people say "Marxist-Leninist" since Lenin was a Marxist; therefore, just saying Leninist would include the teachings of Marx, wouldn't it? (lemmygrad.ml)
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[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 3 months ago

Marx and Lenin focused on different things. The primary focus of Marx was on economic theory while Lenin's primary focus was on how to organize an effective revolution. This is an excellent take on the subject incidentally

https://web.archive.org/web/20200410214430/https://twitter.com/existentialcoms/status/1248728086834601984