I've witnessed so many Marxist-Leninists tell anarchists that if their social experiments didn't work, then the fault lies in their ideology and systems of organization.
How come these same Marxist-Leninists don't apply this same logic to Marxist-Leninists states that have all resulted in oppressive and totalitarian dictatorships that have completely strayed from Marx's vision of a democratic workers state?
Marxist-Leninists who say ML states could have been successful if only they weren't ruined by US intervention sound exactly like anarchists who say that their social experiments would have worked if it weren't for state intervention. It's the same bad argument.
We shouldn't get angry when a capitalist or politician says something that reveals how horrible capitalism is; we should rejoice! Do you know how hard it is to convince people that capitalism is bad? We should accept all the help we can get in convincing people, especially when it's served to us on a silver platter.
Thank you, Joni Ernst, for helping us socialists and communist more easily convince the working class that capitalism is bad for workers.
We should move past Marxism-Leninism, but not #communism completely. It's not fair to abandon every single communist ideology (many of which, like Classical #Marxism and Council Communism, actually promote democratic popular control and decision-making, unlike #Leninism) just because one proved itself to be terrible.
@midtsveen
#Proletarian #internationalism is a foundational part of #communism, & "building meaningful #partnerships" with #genociders is the opposite
Revolutionary Syndicalism: Moving Beyond Capitalism & Communism
Private ownership of the means of production is the load-bearing of capitalism. Remove it, and all of capitalism will fall.
People > Profit
If Marxist-Leninist states were ideologically strong enough to handle criticism, they wouldn't have to ban any opposition to their states. If your entire state would crumble just from people being allowed to openly criticize and protest against it, then your state is too weak and fragile to exist, and it certainly isn't a state of the people.
"And after the system (#capitalism) has been destroyed, how do you prevent what always happens in those cases from happening?"
By creating an actual democratic state to manage affairs that's led by the working class, not a totalitarian state with little to no democracy led by a vanguard party.
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