Political Science · Western Political Thought
UGC NET December 2014 Political Science
Who of the following said that 'Lenin's party was designed to be an elite, a minority chosen for intellectual and moral superiority, the most advanced part of the working class and so its vanguard'?
AC.B. MacPherson
BD. McLellan
CG.H. Sabine ✓ Correct
DR. Miliband
Correct answer: (C) G.H. Sabine — The description of Lenin's party as an elite vanguard was given by G.H. Sabine, so the answer is G.H. Sabine.
Explanation
★The description of Lenin's party as an elite vanguard was given by G.H. Sabine, so the answer is G.H. Sabine.
★Sabine made the point in his well-known work A History of Political Theory.
★He read Lenin's party as a select minority chosen for intellectual and moral superiority.
★This minority was to be the most advanced part of the working class and to act as its vanguard.
★The idea reflects Lenin's argument in What Is To Be Done? that revolutionary consciousness must be brought to the workers.
★MacPherson, McLellan and Miliband are other commentators, but this particular characterisation is Sabine's.
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