Vladimir Lenin is most well-known for his actions during and after the Russian Revolution. Long before the revolution, Lenin critiqued capitalism and postulated about socialism. He stated that capitalistic democracy brings no forward momentum, but is stagnate in an oppressive society. It was “Inevitably narrow and stealthily [pushing] aside the poor, and is therefore hypocritical and false...”2 Lenin’s true problem within capitalism was the oppression of the worker by the bourgeois. Lenin saw the continuation of poverty as the direct result of inherent issues within capitalism. Therefore, much of his trust in socialism’s superiority rested with its ability to first reverse these rules of oppression and subsequently instigate an equal society.3
