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Marxism-Leninism Study Guide: Advanced Course
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Not that I downvoted. The sentiment is good. But while Lenin has some very quotable phrases, his actual implementation of government was fascism, concentration camps, and slavery, and not just of the rich but many repressed minority groups. Centralized power and secret police is far right wing politically and quite far from communism. And ultimately even his economic policies after taking control of property and a few larger businesses, gave control, if not legal ownership, of most everything to just a different small minority of the powerful, not to the workers.
So he talked a good anticapitalist propaganda, but didn't practice good communism at all and ultimately put Russia on the path to a long period of fascism with Stalin, the USSR, Putin, etc.
There are tons of better communists to quote.
Thomas Mann, Essays, ed. by H.Kurzke, Frankfurt 1986, vol. 2, p. 311
I never said Nazi or Germany even once. Fascism is a form of government. All Nazi's are fascist, but but only a small subset of fascists are Nazis.
do something then