Lenin viewed racism as a product and a tool of bourgeois society. Racism is used to win over working-class people to sacrificing and dying for imperial adventures abroad (in Lenin's time, tzarist expansion in central and east Asia, in our time, wars in Afghanistan and Iraq), and also to divide different sections of workers (who would otherwise be the overwhelming majority) in their struggles for economic freedom and political power. Therefore, racism was definitely an obstacle to socialist revolution. The way to overcome these national rivalries was to build an "international" of socialists from all over the world. Delegates from China, India, and elsewhere came to the first congresses of Lenin's Third International (which would later betray 1st and 3rd world movements time and again after Lenin's death).
To see Lenin's views on the use of racism as a tool of imperialist policy, look up "national self-determination" vs "social chauvinism".
Domestically speaking, Lenin would advocate for labor-organizations in various nations to instill working-class consciousness and combat forms of "false-consciousness" that divided the working class, which include racism, sexism, homo-phobia, and religious divisions. He wrote letters to American revolutionaries convincing them to argue for the inclusion of blacks in the labor movement, and, were he around today, he would probably congratulate Egyptian Mulsims and Copts (Christians) for coming together at Tahrir Square, despite centuries of Muslim oppression toward Copts.
Racism is one of the issues that, Lenin would argue, necessitates the formation of a "vanguard-party" of the most class-conscious workers. Common economic oppression alone are not enough to get workers to unite, since racism divides and oppresses different sections of workers. Class unity can't be left to spontaneity... It takes organizations of trained and conscious anti-racists, anti-sexists, etc, to work amongst their co-workers, neighbors, and fellow soldiers, to win them to the idea of racial unity.
I thought that nice chap I quoted above explained it pretty well.
Know the game!
These are all excellent points.
"Grind them between taxation and inflation", give them the false choice between "right" and "left".
Are you suggesting that all of this is "the opposite" simply because of the source (ad hominem)?
Is egalitarianism "evil"?
I understand that "freedom" and "equality" are inversely proportional.
But one does need to actually "draw the line" somewhere.
Opposite of? Not following sorry.
I do not support Lenin's vision no. I am deeply opposed to artificially created crisis' for societal manipulation.
They are the masters of the Hegelian Dialectic.
They are the masters of the FALSE DICHOTOMY.
I'm not sure you can pin this on Hegel.
How so? I didn't pin it on an individual. The dialectic though....
Create the Problem
Get desired Reaction
Propose Solution (original goal)
This is also known as "creative writing 101".
STASIS, CRISIS, RESOLUTION.
It's the arch-typical three act play.
And a really good con-artist doesn't even need to manufacture the "crisis".
Just have a little patience.