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View submission: Who comes close to Chomsky today?
I don't get why that's relevant to Parenti being a great Marxist
Comment by Ornery_Witness_5193 at 03/02/2025 at 17:06 UTC
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You can be a Marxist and still see that Lenin did not want socialism. His first law on paper after taking power by force was to make sure that workers don't self-manage industry (which is what they were already doing months before he came along). His next decision shortly after, was to ignore the results of the first democratic elections in Russian history (because he lost) and decided to stay in power, again by force. Is that Maxism or something else?