Weakest link of the Chain (V. I. Lenin)

Weakest Link of Chain: Marx has not formulated the detailed plans and strategy for the creation of a socialist state.

He has presented only some sketchy details and details of the state and society in a socialist state. Lenin provided a detailed strategy and plan for the establishment of the socialist revolution and its sustenance.

In his works on State and Revolution, he has dealt with the stately and plans for creating a socialist state in Russia.  The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917 threw new challenges for Lenin. He had to reconcile the revolution in the under-developed country of Tsarist Russia with the Marxian concept of Revolution.

Hence, he had put forward the theory of the ‘Weakest Link of Chain’. He maintained that revolution would not first occur, as Marx had predicted, in the countries where capitalism was at an advanced stage. It would first happen in a country where capitalism is in the lower stage of its development, where the bourgeoisie is not strong.

These countries constitute the weakest link of the imperialist chain and could be fit for the socialist proletariat revolution. This would lead to the chain of socialist revolutions in other countries, and then may take up the countries where capitalism is at a higher stage, and the bourgeois is strong.

Lenin also differed from the Marxian concept of the withering of the state at the socialist stage of the revolution, Lenin believed that the state and its coercive apparatus would be needed in dealing with thratus would be needed in dealing with the reactionary and counter-revolutionary forces.  The withering away of state would render the budding revolution vulnerable to the gimmick of the counterrevolutionary and reactionary forces.

Moreover, the socialist system would have to accept the reality of the co-existence of private and public capital until it becomes strong enough to take over the task of the socialist reconstruction. Only then there might arise some possibility of the withering of the state.

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