Still you have “orthodox Marxists” who will claim ML is not really Marxism but I think if it was called just “Leninism” it would’ve been even easier for them to claim Leninism isn’t even Marxism.
I wonder if nowadays I can just call myself a Leninist and people will get the message since nobody questions Lenin’s adherence to Marxism anymore.
Although I can understand this argument, I don’t think it’s realistically so. Leninism COULD mean that, but in practice, it’s used only to exclude Marxist Leninists from the group. When someone says Leninist, they are so often referring to it in opposition to “Stalinists” that the umbrella model can’t really work.
I wonder if nowadays I can just call myself a Leninist and people will get the message since nobody questions Lenin’s adherence to Marxism anymore.
Apparently Leninism is a wider term including ML, Trotskyism, and other tendencies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leninism
So it wouldn’t be wrong call MLs Leninist, or just Marxist if you want to cast an even wider net.
Although I can understand this argument, I don’t think it’s realistically so. Leninism COULD mean that, but in practice, it’s used only to exclude Marxist Leninists from the group. When someone says Leninist, they are so often referring to it in opposition to “Stalinists” that the umbrella model can’t really work.