• Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    He was imprisoned for what he wrote about. His actions tell me that he was not a socialist, and that’s what matters. He held an election, immediately enacted violence to change the outcome, immediately dismantled the socialist power structures that were in place, purged people who didn’t agree with him, and acted as an autocrat.

    Anyone who thinks Lenin was a socialist is ignorant of history.

    Edit: I can’t actually see who replied to me because I blocked them 😂 tells me what I need to know about the people arguing with me.

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      3 months ago

      immediately dismantled the socialist power structures that were in place

      That’s insanely ahistorical. The socialist power structures that were in place, existed precisely BECAUSE of Lenin and the Bolsheviks. And soviets had a very high degree of government control all the way up until the death of Lenin. You’re seriously mistaken about this