Shipping people off to the gulags is not a feature of Marxism. My point here is that these terms get attached to political movements and then people mistake ho

Shipping people off to the gulags is not a feature of Marxism. My point here is that these terms get attached to political movements and then people mistake how the movement is practiced with the original thing. Lenin was influenced by Marx. He considered himself a Marxist for certain. What he practiced was Totalitarianism. The Nazi party's formal name was the "National Socialist German Worker's Party". You could argue they were influenced by Socialism, but you are being disingenuous if you make the leap to Socialism means exterminating the Jews. Now, there are people that say that! They are wingnuts. > I agree, but I think you could ask you average college Democrat and they'd equate the two. I doubt that very much.