Lenin's Views On The Differences Between Mao And Stalin

With this being said, however, there is a key difference between Mao and Lenin which separates who they were as leaders and would have made Lenin look down upon the Chinese Communist Party to some extent. The primary problem here was that Mao’s Communists did not want to spread their influence or to establish a solid group but instead internalized their focus. Lenin was a man of the world and while he wanted to focus on fixing Russia and introducing communism to their society first and foremost, he did not suggest that the teachings of this movement needed to be limited to any one area. Mao was aware, however, that the supporters of his cause were largely farmers and peasants and, as a result, did not even attempt to further translate their beliefs and new way of …show more content…
While Lenin represented a significant leap of faith and logic from the ideas proposed by Marx when he began to take power in the early 20th century, his ideas could at least demonstrate how they are similar to those of the German political thinker and philosopher. The differences between Lenin’s views and those of Mao and Stalin, however, were significant and represented a change in political perspective and ideals as a result. This suggests that circumstances not only in Russia and in China had changed but that they had evolved on an international scale as well. Curiously enough, as the world became more and more interconnected, it was the leaders of the present in the 1950s who turned back and focused their efforts inward, whereas the leaders before them such as Marx and Lenin tried to create a much more inclusive and international perspective on society and