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Lenjinovo određenje militarizma i njegova aktualnost
Lenin's Definition of Militarism and its Current Relevance

Author(s): Ilija Prijić
Subject(s): Politics, Political Sciences, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919)
Published by: Fakultet političkih znanosti u Zagrebu
Keywords: Lenin; Definition of Militarism; Current Relevance;

Summary/Abstract: Lenin's definition of militarism until 1916 was in agreement with the social democratic views of the Second International. He did not define militarism as a rule of the military but as a politics which establishes institutions of armed forces and stationary army that should be used in case of a conflict between capital and labour. Faced with war and armed intervention Lenin redefined his definition of militarism accepting it as an instrument necessary for the preservation of the revolution. In neither of these two definitions did Lenin come close to the contemporary definition of militarism.

  • Issue Year: XXV/1988
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 81-93
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Croatian