communism. you seem to be under the impression that the only form of it is the sort the USSR was under, which sucked
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Replying to @atomicthumbs @Pinboard
that would be marxism-leninism, but it degenerated into "not really communism anymore" i.e. state capitalism pretty quick
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have you read the Gulag Archipelago, or Kolakowski’s history of Marxism?
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i am under-studied. perhaps you know more than I do and I misinterpreted your tweets. because fuck 140 characters :p
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so Solzhenitsyn in particular argues (with examples) that there never was a ‘pure’ Leninism or Marxism that got corrupted
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not saying there was! marxism isn't a coherent political model and leninism's... not so good in the first place
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you don’t have to agree with me, but read the first 200 pages of gulag archipelago. The guy won a Nobel prize
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