[Vladimir Lenin looking pensive]
To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament - this is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarism.
Vladimir Lenin
The State and Revolution
1917
https://thebad.website/comic/bourgeois_parliamentarism
Bourgeois parliamentarism
5 Comments
Sour_Kabos@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 25d
Or you can crush the people through having a communist dictator for life. They love talking about the people, but ultimately the people are reduced to livestock of the people running the state.
Zombie@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 25d
As opposed to Lenin's own version: To never decide which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people. This is the real essence of state "socialism".
Bad@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 25d
Two things can be bad at once.
What the USSR became doesn't invalidate Lenin's critiques of capitalism and bourgeois society.
Zombie@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 25d
Lenin's moral authority to proselytise vanished during his time in power. There is no need to quote him like this, and therefore portray him in a positive light, when others have said similar before, during, and after his time.
For example:
https://www.anarchistquotes.com/lysander-spooner-quote-anarcho-individualist-4/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysander_Spooner
Bad@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 25d
I have no issue portraying Lenin's many contributions to marxist theory in a positive light.
It is possible to condemn one's actions where appropriate while still acknowledging they were right about other things.