Bibliographic record
Abstract
Vladimir Lenin is often thought of as a political theorist and politician. His contributions to political economy are often not given the credit as they deserve. His writings on capitalism are exemplars of the class approach to political economy. His work on imperialism innovatively develops some of the themes from Marx’s general law of accumulation in Capital, Vol. 1. Lenin remains wedded to the labour theory of value, theory of surplus value and the doctrine of the proletariat-led class struggle. While an avowed internationalist, he is deeply sensitive to the specificities of the Global South as Marx was. Lenin’s political economy utilizes empirical data which he interprets on the basis of scientific theory with the help of the philosophy materialist dialectics. Lenin also draws political implications of his ideas for the radical transformation of the world. This his political economy offers a unique combination of philosophy, theory, concrete analysis, and guidelines for political practice. The political economy discourse in Lenin’s time and in our time suffers from a series of problems as it offers many revisionist and inaccurate claims. These include denial of, or underemphasis on, numerous facts/processes in capitalist society such as the tendency towards class differentiation; impoverishment of workers; inevitability of periodic crises; importance of value relations; relevance of capitalist imperialism; and so on. The political economy discourse in Lenin’s time and in our time suffers from a series of problems as it offers many revisionist and inaccurate claims. These include denial of, or underemphasis on, numerous facts/processes in capitalist society such as the tendency towards class differentiation; impoverishment of workers; inevitability of periodic crises; importance of value relations; relevance of capitalist imperialism; and so on. Lenin’s political economy responds to these problems and advances a Marxist alternative on many of these themes.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".