@weplaychess90 said in #48:
> Marx preaches about the dictatorship of the proletariat. Lenin was a criminal follower.
Marx had a lot of names for what he thought would happen after capitalism. Some of them were still appropriate in our time in history, others weren't. And so, for instance, Marx discussed the "union of free producers," expanding the co-operative to a national level, "associated production," "communism" (both higher and lower levels), "socialism," and so on.
Marx operated under a vast underestimate of the amount of time it would take for capitalism to run its course. This underestimate appears to have been a product of Victorian-era hubris.
Lenin was a product of an era which had made Marx into a civic religion: "Marxism." Maybe it's good to think of Lenin as a proponent of the "Eastern Orthodox" version of Marxism. His dictatorship was born of two catastrophic wars: World War I, and the Russian Civil War, which pretty much determined the form the Soviet Union would take. Lenin is not the easiest guy to interpret as a dictator, since he took over at the end of 1917 and died at the beginning of 1923. So that gives you five years.
> Marx preaches about the dictatorship of the proletariat. Lenin was a criminal follower.
Marx had a lot of names for what he thought would happen after capitalism. Some of them were still appropriate in our time in history, others weren't. And so, for instance, Marx discussed the "union of free producers," expanding the co-operative to a national level, "associated production," "communism" (both higher and lower levels), "socialism," and so on.
Marx operated under a vast underestimate of the amount of time it would take for capitalism to run its course. This underestimate appears to have been a product of Victorian-era hubris.
Lenin was a product of an era which had made Marx into a civic religion: "Marxism." Maybe it's good to think of Lenin as a proponent of the "Eastern Orthodox" version of Marxism. His dictatorship was born of two catastrophic wars: World War I, and the Russian Civil War, which pretty much determined the form the Soviet Union would take. Lenin is not the easiest guy to interpret as a dictator, since he took over at the end of 1917 and died at the beginning of 1923. So that gives you five years.
