• Vespair@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    This is kind of tangential, but I wish people would make distinction between Marxism and Leninism. Marx didn’t say shit about the vanguard party. Imo, we can reject Leninism without having to reject Marxism.

    Also don’t waste your time arguing with me, because I am woefully uneducated and stupid, but I can only work with what I have, ya know?

    • frezik@midwest.social
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      6 months ago

      I accidentally wandered into a lemmy.ml bit recently and said ML can be rejected just on the basis of consistently devolving into cults. The reply came back of “why do you not like Marxism?” as of that’s what I said.

      Oh, and they removed that comment and banned me, but that’s just as well.

    • voldage@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      I don’t think many people on lemmy conflate marxism with leninism outside of .ml, and even there folks seems to see leninism as something on top of marxism and not inherently mixed.

      And then we also have people who feel stalinist style “communo facism” would work well because everyone you like will be fed and everyone you don’t like will be dead. I don’t think anyone ever liked those people, including themselves.