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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Marxism is broken up into 3 major components:

  1. Dialectical and Historical Materialism

  2. Critique of Capitalism via the Law of Value

  3. Advocacy for Revolutionary and Scientific Socialism.

Marxism-Leninism carries these 3 foundations forward, and analyzes Capitalism as it reaches Imperialism, as well as numerous expansions on the foundations of revolutionary theory and practice.

They are not "the same," but the vast majority of Marxists are Marxist-Leninists, because Lenin's application of Marxism to higher stages of Capitalism are invaluable to Marxism.