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[–] 28 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Your first sentence is not wrong; as I understand Marx’s writing. Essentially it is not possible to go from agrarianism straight to communism without first building an industrial society. That’s how Russia / USSR, China etc don’t “technically” count.

Don't worry, Lenin et co said you could do it if you believed extra super hard and gave all the power to a small clique of intellectuals. Lenin, like Jesus and the Gospels, takes precedence over prior teachings.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That’s a good analogy. The mental gymnastics needed to be Marxist-Leninist is akin to believing both the old and new testaments are - essentially - about the same guy. I’m particularly thinking about New Economic Policy existing in a communist state. Wild.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    [Overthrows the SRs for daring to say capitalism must come first to industrialize Russia]

    [Implements capitalism to industrialize Russia]

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    For a minute I thought SRs was a speech-to-text mistake for “Tsars” and was super confused - but then it all made sense. Been a long time since I’ve talked about this stuff.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    It's not a STT mistake of the word Tsar? What is it?

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