How to Use Leninism in a Sentence

Leninism

noun

• Quite a few rights-defenders, to be sure, began their search for first principles with the idea of a return to Leninism.
  — Benjamin Nathans september 24, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
• Not every Vova took leave of Leninism, of course, and not all those who took leave of Leninism turned to the defense of civil and human rights.
  — Benjamin Nathans september 24, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
• Leninism as a living mobilizational ideology had run its revolutionary course and was now the stale dogma of the lip-service state.
  — Benjamin Nathans september 24, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
• Soviet dissidents commonly saw themselves as reviving a tradition wider and older than Leninism, namely, that of the nineteenth-century Russian intelligentsia.
  — Benjamin Nathans september 24, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
• Leninism, with its Bolshevik contempt for religion and family; Frantz Fanon's poisonous doctrine that violence is not only justified but the very path to human dignity; and Islamism's contempt for the West.
  — Ayaan Hirsi Ali, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
• Cosmists who believed in technology as a messianic force clashed not just with the Svyatogor camp, but also with the communists, whose guiding ideology of Marxism-Leninism was predicated on the dismantling of age-old social systems to establish a novel world order.
  — Tim Brinkhof, Big Think, 12 Sep. 2025
• The turn away from Leninism, however, hardly meant a rejection of socialism, which for most Soviet citizens, including most dissidents, had become an accepted way of life, something taken for granted and only loosely related to Leninism, or, for that matter, to law and rights.
  — Benjamin Nathans september 24, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
• By the early post-World War II period, the demographic cohort most likely to rebel against authority—namely, youth—had been molded by Soviet institutions in which the revolutionary teachings of Marxism-Leninism had achieved the status of sacred canon.
  — Benjamin Nathans september 24, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
• During Joseph Stalin’s final years in power, and continuing into Nikita Khrushchev’s Thaw, no worldview, no way of thinking, no set of texts contributed more to oppositional activity in the Soviet Union than those of Marxism-Leninism.
  — Benjamin Nathans september 24, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
• The Communist Revolution, rooted in the Western ideology of Marxism-Leninism imported from Europe, advocated a total rejection of native, Imperial-era customs and social structures.
  — Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 17 Nov. 2025