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Why do people say "Marxist-Leninist" since Lenin was a Marxist; therefore, just saying Leninist would include the teachings of Marx, wouldn't it? (lemmygrad.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I don't like adding up more isms as more authors add their knowledge to it, like after Mao added his contributions, then some people started calling it afterwards Marxism-Leninism-Maoism... Marxism is a broad field of science that encompasses economics, history, sociology, revolutionary organization etc...

That said, I love Mao and Lenin's additions to the theory. But for simplicity, I just call the field of study as Marxism.