Carl Schmitt vs. Vladimir Lenin
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Carl Schmitt
1888 – 1985
Carl Schmitt was a German jurist and political theorist who wrote about the effective wielding of political power. He was an authoritarian conservative theorist, noted as a reactionary critic of parliamentary democracy, liberalism, and cosmopolitanism in works of political theory, legal theory, Continental philosophy, and political theology, which were controversial because Schmitt gave much intellectual support to Nazism.
"Every religious, moral, economic, ethical, or other antithesis transforms into a political one if it is sufficiently strong to group human beings effectively ac…"
Vladimir Lenin
1870 – 1924
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He was the first head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 until his death in 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death. As the Bolsheviks' founder, Lenin led the October Revolution, which established the world's first communist state and short-lived soviet democracy.
"Imperialism is capitalism in that stage of development in which the domination of monopolies and finance capital has established itself; in which the export of …"
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