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NATIONALISM. SOCIALISM. AND VIOLENT REVOLUTION
the bcgmnuig. SlowJy the term "communisin" fell into oblivion and the
term ^'soculxsm" came mto use almost exclusively.
Socialist parties, social democraac parties, were formed and their
fundamental dogma was the Communist Manifesto. In 1918, Lenin needed a
new term to dtstingutsh his gioup of socialists from those groups which he
called "social traitors." So he gave to the term "communism" a new
meaning; he used it to rrfer. not to the final goal of socialism and communum,
but only to the tactical meam for atuining them. Until Stalin,
Communist meant umply a bener method—the revolutionary method—as
a^imt the peaceful, socialist, method of the "socialist traitors." At the end
ot the 1920i. without great success. Stahn in the Third International tried
to give a difTerrnc meaning lo the term "communism " However, Russia is
tfiU called the Union of Scnict .Stvw/u/ Republics (USSR).
In a letter. Karl Mant dmingutihcd bctwrcn two stages of socialism
tlic lower prrlimiiur\' vugc and (he higher stage. But Marx didn't give
ditfercni names to these rwti itage%. At (he higher sLage. he said, there will
br tuch Ml abundaiKe c^ everything that it will be possible to establish the
principle "to everybody according to his needs." Because foreign critics
noticed diflerrnces in the sundard« of living of various members of the
Kus%un Stnicls. Stalin nude a distinction. A( (he end of the 1920s he
drclarrd that (he Uiurr Kagc wa% "uKialum" and the higher stage was
*\ommunism "Ihc diftcmuc wa* (lu( at (he Umrr scnialist stage there was
inequahty in the rations o( (he various members of the Russian Soviets;
equality v^nll be atuined only in (he la(er. communist, suge.
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