1) Marx was an armchair theorist, while Lenin was a practitioner and in the end took power in Russia.
2) Marx developed his theory watching 19th-century industrial societies in Western Europe, while Lenin adapted Marxism to the realities of 20th-century Imperial Russia, where peasants constituted 4/5th of the population.
3) Marx was a lousy party organizer, while Lenin founded one of the most successful political parties in the world.
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Marx conducted a brilliant analysis of the capitalist system in his “Das Kapital” (the first volume). He revealed all innate problems of the capitalism. But his solution – the communistic society, it seems not working.
In my opinion, Marx erred when inherited the Enlightenment Age’s thinking that people behave RATIONALLY.
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