A Symbolic Sample of the Russification of Marxism-Lenin's Understanding of the Paris Commune and Its Application
The Paris Commune is both a historical event and a symbol Lenin extensively quoted and actively used the symbol of the Commune,and took the Paris Commune as an example of both revolutionary strategy and regime building,which enriched the Marxist theory on revolution and state and answered such major theoretical questions as what revolutionary strategy the Russian Bolsheviks should adopt and what kind of socialist country to build.In Lenin's view,the proletariat should emulate the Paris Commune of 1871,use the war-invoked crisis to speed up the collapse of capitalism,and on this basis build a new type of state-a"Commune state"with the"Commune system"as a reference.In using the symbol of the Commune,Lenin not only combined it with the on-going Russian reality with an attempt to integrate it into the practice of the Soviet state construction,but also placed it in the complex context of the theoretical struggle for the debate against opportunism and anarchism.With Lenin's elaboration,the meaning of the Commune as a symbol was further expanded,and a socialist continuity between the Soviet and the Paris Commune was built across space and time.