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Marxism is certainly disciplined as millions know to their cost.

• vidarh 10y ago
  None of those regimes claimed to be Marxist. Marxist-Lenist, Maoist, etc., sure. Specifically, all of those regimes supported some form of "democratic centralism" and other aspects of Leninist party theory, such as the idea of a vanguard revolutionary party, which is not part of classical Marxism. Amongst he first people purged by the Bolsheviks, were Marxists and other socialists that opposed their coup, and the resulting authoritarianism. People who had spent months since the actual revolution, where power was handed to the Duma, building towards a liberal socialist society, and who won the vast majority of votes for the constituent assembly on that platform (the Bolsheviks won ~10% of the vote; hence the "October revolution", which was nothing more than a coup) Many of them met their end for continuing to oppose the Bolsheviks politically, many after taking up arms and fighting on the other side in the ensuing Russian civil war. Some managed to flee.