This is a Lenin thread. We should all admit that, even if one is an anarchist or a Leftcom, they must have at least a basic knowledge of Lenin and his ideas and leadership of Russia. Here you will post all your favorite quotes, writings, criticisms of other Marxists and other Marxists criticisms of, fun facts, of Lenin.
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Favorite critique of Lenin is Hermann Gorter's response to An Infantile Disorder. Reluctant favorite work of Lenin is The State and Revolution.
Not much tbh, probably an expansion of the NEP for a couple more years, and then a gradual removal of it instead of the abrupt abolishment it had under Stalin. I imagine besides that not much would've happened, maybe no Great Purge but that's just speculation.
Tbh they both would've probably been very similar. Who was the "legitimate" successor, probably neither, since Lenin's testament was faked so I don't think Lenin ever said who was the legitimate one, just his own preference of who would be a better leader. That being said though, if ⛏️rotsky would've been elected instead of Stalin, it would've probably been like neocon socialism, as in a far more expansionist and intervening in foreign conflicts USSR. Idk what ⛏️rotsky's position on the NEP was, so can't comment on that.
So why didn't Lenin implement the programs he advocated for in S&R? Did the circumstances of the war or Russian society not allow it?
Both, yes. The war drove Russia's economic base to ruins and the programs in the S&R assume an at least somewhat healthy economic base. Additionally, Russian society was incredibly backward (remember, approximately 80% of the popular were illiterate peasants) so the massive cultural changes required for the kind of 'workers' paradise' envisioned in Lenin's pre-revolutionary work simply weren't in the cards.
Lenin was a hero. There has never and will never be a leader as good as he was.
He truly was one of the most important and influencing revolutionaries that history has seen. I doubt any revolutionary will ever again come close to the relevance and prestige Lenin achieved.
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