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If anarchism is to blame for a different system that came after it than Marxist-Leninism is to blame for the capitalist shithole that is Russia today

Literally yes, we Marxist leninists study history in order to prevent the same mistakes. That’s why we have entire books devoted to the topic such as “Socialism Betrayed” analyzing the history and mistakes of the socialists in the USSR that led to its dissolution. Imagine engaging in honest criticism of your own ideology.

Still, Marxist Leninism brought 70 years of development and human rights to a former absolutist monarchy and saved its inhabitants from extermination at the hands of Nazism, and it still survives in many countries like Cuba, Vietnam, Laos or freaking China.

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Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

china

communist

Lol, lmao even

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- Riverside@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Western chauvinist tries not to trample other country’s self-described identity challenge
  
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  - eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    The people’s stock market. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Stock_Exchange
    
    The people’s billionaires. en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_Chinese_by_net_worth
    
    Marx famously advocated for billionaires to hoard wealth and to have stock exchanges, he said that’s the true path to communism.
    
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    Riverside@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    If you were aware of the multiple tendencies within Marxism you wouldn’t make such uneducated claims. Example: the mensheviks in Soviet Russia arguing for a prolonged existence of capitalism during the industrialization of the country.
    
    Marx himself believed that socialism was only possible after a capitalist phase and that it was precisely capitalism’s tendencies that would make socialism appear, and in turn give way to communism eventually. It was literally Lenin’s contribution that proposed Socialism directly from a feudal economy (early 20th century Russia and China), and argued for Bolshevism as opposed to Menshevism.
    
    God forbid China finds a way to socialism with a mixed market economy. Regardless: seeing your quarrels with markets and billionaires, you surely are a staunch supporter of the Soviet model and the Cuban project?
    
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    Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Markets =/= capitalism
    
    Read a book
    
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