Quote Originally Posted by SalTheButcher
do you know what makes communism be the way america implies it ALLWAYS is?

its because once the communist government is in place the man heading the government is supposed to step down (according to leninism) but they almost never do, and it becomes more of a dictatorship


the soveit union ws close to it... but when lenin died early it was ruined, as stalin put himself in power by getting all the positions he could

he first glorified lenin, and then built off that and implied he was the replacement and that all the glory HE had made for lenin, the embalming and all that shit, he put it onto himslef


stalin is the reason there were so many lenin statues


he wanted that for himself and he knew lenin ws more respected, so in order for him to have that he had to first do it for lenin
I just finished reading two books that dealt with Marxism and Socialist thought. Fascinating. There were many paths the movement could have followed. However, in the end, Lenin's version won. Lenin's version was harsh and he believed that you had to beat heads in in order to accomplish the goal. Lenin was a despot who instituted elitism into communism. For you to defend him is bothersome. the Bernstein model was much more preferable. Bernstein critiqued Lenin's methods. He was a communist too but he said that there needed to be a more moral approach.