I would like to analyse the two major ideologies of the 20th century, left wing Soviet Marxism-Leninism in the times of Lenin and the right wing Facism under the rule of Mussolini.

Analyse the ideology of a one left wing ruler and one right wing ruler

I would like to analyse the two major ideologies of the 20th century,  left wing Soviet Marxism-Leninism in the times of Lenin and the right wing Facism under the rule of Mussolini.

Communists have always believed that individuals do not work and live in isolation, they are rather a part of a community, that is based on cooperation, not competition. A similarity to classical conservatism emerges, but communists don’t find any value in tradition,custom,religion,liberty or private properties. Marxes idea was fighting class divisions,economic inequalities and unequal life chances in order to achieve satisfying work or fair share of product for everyone. However he died in 1883, too early to see his ideas put into political practice. Lenin,calling himself a Marxist was soon busy interpeting,reintepreting and adapting his ideas to Marx’s ideology when organizing the Red revolutionary forces in Russia in 1918. Unlike Marx who appreciated the Kants moral imperatives, Lenin believed that one may cheat,steal, betray friends in order to further the class struggle. He established the infamous secret police KGB that limited people’s freedoms and got rid of the counterrevolutionaries-chistkas. This meant that bringing of communism to power as well as sustaining of the power cost lives of thousands of elite intellectuals. Furthermore, Lenin believed the Communist party should be small, well organized and highly effective, he didn’t want a broadly organized party of workers. The more members the party would have, the more difficult would it be for Lenin to convince them about his plans and aims. Lenin didn’t support democracy because he believed that masses couldn’t be trusted to know  their real interests. Consequently people had no word in the political happenings. His ideology was also based on the economic theory of collective ownership of property for the well being of all-collectivization. Aim was to raise the consciousness of the working class (proletariat). Nationalism was to play no role , workers of the whole world were to eventually start the Communist revolution,  at first it should take place in the countries where the proletariat is rather impoverished- China.  After all, Lenin’s ideology was successful in its main left wing aim of creating and “egalitarian” society.