Marxist Leninists when they haven't ignored 150 years of contemporary political science for sixteen microseconds
this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2023
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Which parts exactly?
Mostly the parts where autocracy doesn't liberate the workers. Even temporarily.
ah yes, the famous "autocracy of the proletariat"
Every time I start to listen and learn from people more left than I am, they get to the part about how after revolution there's probably going to be a period of autocratic rule that should then dissolve by the will of the people. Except none of them talk about plans to actually facilitate the transfer of power, or better yet, prove Lenin wrong by not going thru a period of more authoritarianism.
And "communism has never been tried" is such a stupid word game.
They tried to try. What happened, fellas? How'd it go?
If anything, communism has been tried, but it's never been achieved. A stateless, classless, currencyless society still sounds frickin awesome... But that's not we've had :(
Right, the massive gap in Marxist theory is, and has always been, workable statecraft.
...As told to you by bourgeois funded academics
This is just basic psychology. It takes a long time to change someone's political beliefs, and it isn't effective to just argue with people, even with facts. Interestingly, one way to get people to change their opinion is to frame things in terms of how it affects them and their family.
It took me...I'd say 2 years from being a full conservative to a left-leaning independent. And then another 2 years to being a moderate to progressive liberal.
It does happen. But some people are so rooted in their political identity that they will never change.