lumpenproletariatJun 13, 2025
holdin' out for a hero
Show threadPugJesusJun 13, 2025

Imagine if the Russian Revolution didn’t turn out horrifically in the end. Imagine if the Soviet Union was an actual Marxist polity in something other than nomenclature.

God. History is so full of disappointments.

I should take up drinking.

Show threadJcbAzPxJun 13, 2025
The problem with communism is the requirement for an intermediary despotic stage. There is no way that anyone involved ever intended it to get beyond that (with the possible exception of Marx himself). That’s just not how humans work.
Show threadPugJesus

Marx’s “Dictatorship of the Proletariat” was envisaged as democracy though.

Bourgeois democracy (ie what we largely live in today) is “Dictatorship of the bourgeoisie”.

It’s in reference to what class holds power, not an actual autocratic or oligarchic power structure.

Jun 14, 2025 at 1:54amWeb