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[Anonymous No.9922598]

>1917+100
>he didn't start with the lenins

It's time to admit that we haven't had a political theorist of his caliber since.

[Anonymous No.9922616]

>tfw Zizek has a forward/afterword on the new Lenin collection
>tfw Zizek has a new Lenin book

[Anonymous No.9923700]

>>9922598
Lenin truly was a genius. He correctly interpreted the totalitarian implications of Marxism and proved to all who had doubts about Marxism that it really was just slightly worse form of dictatorship and state capitalism.

How many Rolls Royces did Lenin own again?

"They trust me, dumb proles..."

[Anonymous No.9923718]

>>9922598
>so then after we build this giant socialist dictatorship with the Cheka the state will wither aw-

Lenin was objectively wrong. It's pretty rare, actually, that anyone is as categorically wrong about anything as a lad was about the dialectical process of history.

I mean you have to go back to Marx to be AS wrong.

[Anonymous No.9924972]

>>9923718
The state can't wither away until you achieved superabundance under the socialist mode of production, eliminated class distinctions and stopped being invaded by anti-communists all the time.

[Anonymous No.9925159]

>>9924972
>Science proves X will happen next
X doesn't happen
>Science proves X can't happen because--
Into the dustbin it goes

[Anonymous No.9925187]

>>9922598
>An oppressed class which did not aspire to possess arms and learn how to handle them would deserve only to be treated as slaves - Lenin

[Anonymous No.9925208]

>>9924972
>superabundance
>from a system that doesn't prioritize production
Had a laff m8.

[Anonymous No.9925222]

>>9922598
> It's time to admit that we haven't had a political theorist of his caliber since.
Bitch please

[Anonymous No.9925656]

Whats even the point of reading on socialism? it was one of the biggest political blunders of the last century

[Anonymous No.9925691]

>>9922598
*critiques your theory of the vanguard*

*destroys democratic centralism*

Nothing personnel, Lenin.

[Anonymous No.9925697]

>>9925656
>unironically petersonposting

[Anonymous No.9925941]

>>9925691
wtf i love bordiga now

[Anonymous No.9926855]

>>9925656
>implying Socialism has ever been implemented in a fully industrialized post-capitalist country as it was designed to

[Anonymous No.9926871]

>>9925656
>woah dude the USSR fell, therefore we should just accept the existing capitalist exploitation system

[Anonymous No.9927422]

>>9926871
This. It simply portrays a complete ignorance of how social revolutions and long-term transitions work. The roots of the capitalist mode of production were preparing for centuries, locating it to single points is just when all the imminent contradictions explode and go in various directions, false-starts, retreats and repetitions. Not to mention the incredible violence and state power needed to eradicate feudalism, privatize land etc. These transitions are anything but smooth and organic, they are traumatic in the extreme and never achieve success as an instant revolutionary bang. If you categorically reject the concept of social revolutions, presumably you also reject the whole idea of republicanism, predicated as it was on a series of "failed revolutions." The failure of socialist states in the 20th century is really a temporary setback in the wider picture, obviously it requires a deep re-conceptualisation of socialism, but liberal triumphalism is already losing its ideological power in many parts of the world. The process put into motion by centuries of labour struggles is not going to be eradicated by the USSR.

[Anonymous No.9928612]

Thanks for the laughs commies.

[Anonymous No.9928618]

>>9924972
Leapfrogging the overtly capitalist stage is a bad way of attaining superabundance.

[Anonymous No.9928682]

>>9926855
this