 Instead, Lenin favoured a vanguard of socialist intelligentsia who would lead the working-classes in revolution.Furthermore, Bogdanov—influenced by Ernest Mach—believed that all concepts of the world were relative, whereas Lenin stuck to the orthodox Marxist view that there was an objective reality independent of human observation.Bogdanov and Lenin holidayed together at Maxim Gorky's villa in Capri in April 1908; on returning to Paris, Lenin encouraged a split within the Bolshevik faction between his and Bogdanov's followers, accusing the latter of deviating from Marxism.