• FunkyStuff [he/him]
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    23 hours ago

    Hey, it's silly phrasing, but it's not such a bad question right? Socialists have never conducted a successful, long lasting revolution inside an industrial country. The Leninist model of a Vanguard of professional revolutionaries working alongside the workers (mainly rural workers and the peasantry, not industrial workers like Marx and Engels thought) proved to be a more successful model for revolution than a communist party organized purely by industrial workers. I don't think this means Marx and Engels were wrong, but it does mean we have to pay close attention to what Lenin and Mao had to add theoretically, since they were the ones to actually lead the most successful revolutions and they looked nothing like what Marx expected.

    • ZWQbpkzl [none/use name]
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      18 hours ago

      How much of peasant involvement was Lenin's actual theory and not just circumstance? As I recall most of the peasantry were left-SRs, not Bolsheviks. Lenin definitely adapted to the circumstances but im not aware of him planning to. Mao however made peasant involvement very explicit in his theories.

      If anything the main issue with communist revolutions is that the peasantry and farming is way more important than industry and labor. I don't know of a nation with a successful socialist revolution where redistribution of farmland wasn't a primary issue.

  • iByteABit [comrade/them]
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    1 day ago

    The idea that communism "spawns" already shows how little they understood from the works of Marx and Engels, assuming the off chance that they actually did read something before posting this

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    1 day ago

    Communism spawns when sufficient internal contradiction debuff stacks are on capitalism. joker-gaming

    Similarly, Drej spawn when someone develops an energy-to-matter device that might be an existential threat to them.

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