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The philosophy of Leninism is that a vanguard party must be formed that will take over and allow the working class to have political power. Lenin thought that Capitalism was unfair to the people, and their only chance to make their country great was by starting a socialist revolution. Marx believed that the working class was to rise up and take the power from the government. While in power, the proletariats were to lead the other working classes, such as peasants, to forming a socialist nation. In Russia at the time the proletariat population was small, with 80% of the population being peasants. Because of the large population of peasants, Lenin concluded that both the proletariats and peasants needed power. Lenin looked at the state of Russia and used that to mold Marxism into the political theory that would most greatly benefit Russia. Leninism's goal was to destroy all aristocracies and titles in the Russian society. Lenin believed classes and titles oppressed the people, he believed in the equality of the entire population in a country (Fleming,