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I'm sorry you had to live thought the post Khrushchev era Soviet reforms. I'm also sorry that national propaganda taught you your nation was communist, and you
by valarauca1 10y ago
I'm sorry you had to live thought the post Khrushchev era Soviet reforms. I'm also sorry that national propaganda taught you your nation was communist, and you haven't questioned this well into your adulthood.
Have you seriously ever read Marx as an adult? Not under a teachers supervision? He disagrees with >75% of everything Stalin, and everyone who came after him did. A strong argument can even be made that Leninism is a fundamental diversion from Marxism.
But (assuming you are European) non-Leninist communist literature was banned.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> He disagrees with >75% of everything Stalin, and everyone who came after him did. The divergence actually goes back further than Stalin to Lenin and his rather extensive deviations from classical Marxism to come up with a new program that could plausibly be deployed in a society that was itself pre-capitalist without developing mature capitalism on the road to the socialism that Marx saw as the necessary stage between capitalism and the end-state goal of utopian communism. Outside of the utopian ultimate end-state that both strove for in principle, this required complete revision of every part of the Marxist program starting with the preconditions and working through the whole rest of the policy path.
- valarauca1 10y agoThis comic roughly summarizes Lenin's approach to Marxism nicely http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Zg4XgbxYd3k/Ul2WhkOQUiI/AAAAAAAAAIo/Fd5KT3VuS5A/s1600/001.png http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Zg4XgbxYd3k/Ul2WhkOQUiI/AAAAAAAAAI...