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View submission: Who comes close to Chomsky today?
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?
Comment by rafael4273 at 03/02/2025 at 17:15 UTC
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I won't debate Leninism with you here, but Marxism without Leninism is an innocuous ideology. I don't care about the personal figure of Lenin and what he wanted or not, but it has been proven through the many revolutions that happened in the last century that his revolutionary theory is the only correct theory about how to apply Marxism in practice and build an actual revolution to achieve socialism. Marxism is a fundamentally revolutionary theory, and Lenin and dozens of Leninists in other countries were able to achieve this revolution. Chomsky was not