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RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

For what it’s worth Lenin himself said that the USSR was state capitalist and not socialist. Lenin wanted to create socialism from the top down, establishing a dictatorship that takes control of the means of production (state capitalism) and then gives it to the workers later. This never happened because when Stalin came to power he just decided state capitalism = socialism. There are however different ways to try to achieve socialism eg the democratic socialist way or the original Marxist way

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p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Lenin wanted to create socialism from the top down, establishing a dictatorship

When somebody casually says the word “dictatorship” as a serious solution to a problem, they have already failed.

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- RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  This wasn’t a literal dictatorship but a “dictatorship of the proletariat” which, for Lenin, meant a democratic centralist government run by the communist party. Their is some deviation between Lenin’s and Marx definitions of “dictatorship of the proletariat”, however the main idea is a proletariat government that oppresses the bourgeois, mainly by seizing their means of production.
  
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  - p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    democratic centralist government run by the communist party
    
    Sounds like a dictatorship ran by one party.
    
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