• UnderpantsWeevil
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    8 hours ago

    They were leninists, not communists.

    Claiming Leninists aren’t communist is a bit like claiming Jeffersonians aren’t capitalist. “No no! He purchased Louisiana with state money! Adam Smith explicitly said you shouldn’t do this!”

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      4 hours ago

      Leninist created a government with a extremwly powerful class, that owned all means of production. Please explain us how’s that communism

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        Leninist created a government with a extremwly powerful class, that owned all means of production.

        The… proletariat class? Are you suggesting a working class in Russia didn’t exist prior to 1917?

      • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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        Administration is not a class in Marxist understanding. Classes are relations to ownership of the means of production and distribution. Principals and teachers are both proletarian, despite having different managerial levels.