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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
Comment by Ornery_Witness_5193 at 11/02/2025 at 00:17 UTC
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You say you don't want to debate Leninism but then make arguments for Leninism. If the Russian October Revolution had created socialism or even tried to, then maybe I would take it seriously. Socialism means and meant in those days that workers are free to manage their work. Lenin was firmly against that.