Like I think a central state is needed for the first phase of the revolution, but the more brutal aspects is something I just don't want to do, even if I understand why they did them?

  • MoralisticCommunist [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    You can be a Marxist Leninist and also criticize the excess of violence that occurred in the 20th century. Some Orthodox MLs will disagree but at least in the West advancements in police and prison abolition theory have been adapted into Marxism-Leninism and if there is a dictatorship of the proletariat established in the West it won't have massive gulags

    • spectre [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      The material conditions of North america and Western Europe are vastly different than the late Russian and Chinese empires for sure.