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Vanguardism, in Leninist struggle, is a strategy where the most class-conscious members of the working-class, known as the revolutionary vanguard, lead institutions to advance communist goals.
The vanguard works to engage the working class in revolutionary politics and to strengthen proletarian political power against the bourgeoisie.
This theory serves as the underpinning of the leading role of the Communist party, usually enshrined in the constitution, after communists seize power of the state.