• psychothumbs@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Lenin is such a tragic figure. So brilliant at taking and holding power, so bad at communist theory.

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        4 months ago

        Tbh everything I said above could be applied to Mao as well. He had the genius insight that the path to power in China lay in a military struggle mobilizing the peasantry when everyone else in party leadership thought that was crazy and un-Marxist, but then when that insight translated into running China he did not do a good job and should have listened to his fellow party members.

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          4 months ago

          Great points.

          And looking throughout Chinese history, there hasn’t been a leader as leftist as Mao since Mao either. In present day China, the Maoist Communist Party of China (and basically every anti-revisionist communist party) is banned.

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          4 months ago

          Yeah, China and its 1.4 billion people aren’t doing well at all since it collapsed last year. /s

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            4 months ago

            What are you saying here? My criticizing Mao’s leadership implies I think China collapsed last year?

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        4 months ago

        Then why not reference what Lenin said rather than Lenin himself

        When you are losing the argument, post a quote

        Albert Einstein