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Marxism-Leninism is fine. Lenin decided to skip industrialization and went for socialism in one country (though he did try exporting "class consciousness" via w
by vezzy-fnord 11y ago
Marxism-Leninism is fine. Lenin decided to skip industrialization and went for socialism in one country (though he did try exporting "class consciousness" via war with Poland), as well as initiating the Red Terror. Stalin refined what Lenin had began.
Considering that communism requires the simultaneous abolition of the state, money/credit in favor of pure production-for-use and all class distinctions, it is dubious whether this can even be done at all, and certainly most countries are in no position to come close.
- marcoperaza 11y agoCommunism requires no such thing. Marx and Engels and every other serious communist thinker understood that it had to be a gradual process requiring tremendous amounts of state coercion and oppression. Ctrl-F for my other comments on this thread to see an excerpt from The Communist Manifesto. Don't underestimate your enemy or they will win.