释义 |
Leninist, a. and n.|ˈlɛnɪnɪst| [f. Lenin (see prec.) + -ist.] A. adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Lenin, his followers or his doctrine. Hence Leninist–Marxist (cf. Marxist–Leninist adj. s.v. Marxist n.1 and a.1), Leninist–Stalinist. B. n. A follower or supporter of Lenin or his doctrine.
1917Times 10 Nov. 6/4 General Korniloff has been placed under the same ban as M. Kerensky, and renewed instructions for the arrest of both have been issued by the Leninist committee. Ibid. 23 Nov. 7/2 Trotsky, one of the Leninist chiefs, has just declared that violence done by his supporters is a right, but violence in resisting them is immoral. 1920Q. Rev. Apr. 474 The Socialists and the Leninists. 1928E. W. Dickes tr. Marcu's Lenin 187 The Leninists, as the closer adherents of Ulianov now called themselves. 1934H. G. Wells Exper. Autobiogr. II. ix. 806 His [sc. Stalin's] was not a free impulsive brain nor a scientifically organized brain; it was a trained Leninist-Marxist brain. 1949H. Read Existentialism, Marxism & Anarchism 16 Humanism is a term which..even an intransigent Marxist like Lukacs does not disdain—he calls the Leninist theory of knowledge a militant humanism. 1950tr. M. Djilas's On New Roads of Socialism 29 The Soviet Government and the subordinate governments have..organized against her [sc. Yugoslavia] an economic blockade and violent pressure..by which all Leninist principles on relations amongst Socialist countries have been trampled underfoot. 1953Mind LXII. 68 The Leninist..is able to demonstrate the inexorable nature of the ‘withering away of the state’..because his definition of the state requires that it disappears when classes have been abolished. 1964D. Caute Communism & French Intellectuals i. iii. 54 A demand that henceforth the intellectuals cultivate the spirit of the Party in the Leninist-Stalinist sense of the term. 1966P. Heath tr. Wetter's Soviet Ideology Today ii. 32 If the Leninist concept of matter seeks to constitute a definition, it ought to explain what the nature of matter is. 1971Times Lit. Suppl. 21 May 589/1 A critique of specific points of Leninist doctrine. 1973E. Hyams Final Agenda ii. 20 He was a literal, not a nominal Leninist, and he believed..that wisdom..lay in Lenin's profound distrust of the bureaucracy. |