▲ 21 ▼ I sometimes believe that Lenin was a time traveler (lemmy.ml) submitted 11 months ago by Confidant6198@lemmy.ml to c/quotes@lemmy.ml 10 comments fedilink hide all child comments https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/jun/29.htm
[+] Bazell@lemmy.zip -4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (9 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source hideshow 9 child comments replies: [–] davel@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) At this point this obsession with Lenin becomes truly annoying. https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Lemmy Lemmy was created in August 2019 by two communist developers known as Dessalines and Nutomic. Their goal for Lemmy was to provide an open-source alternative to Reddit that anyone could self-host and federate with other Lemmy instances, effectively exchanging content between platforms. from russian accounts Uh no, that’s BlueAnonsense. Previously. And then fun part is that this quote is, in fact, turned to be a manipulation speech to push and encourage workers to revolution only to not keep his promises and indeed to do everything for the survival of his new regime. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago (3 children) Lenin was correct, and still is today. Lemmy was made by communists, communists have been here since the beginning. I'm not Russian either. Lenin kept his promises, the soviet union dramatically uplifted the working classes, doubling life expectancy, democratizing the economy, and developing out of the feudal squalar they existed in beforehand. Communism is the answer. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [+] Bazell@lemmy.zip -7 points 11 months ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago* I do, in fact it took a good deal of reading to overcome my anti-communist bias. I used to think the same way, that the soviet union was a disaster, etc. until I started engaging more with history books and Marxist-Leninist theory. Marxism isn't a religion, it's an ideology. permalink fedilink source parent [–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago Funny thing to say from a literal hitlerite permalink fedilink source parent [–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 1 point 11 months ago (2 children) Just so you know you're on lemmy.ml right now, and the ml stands for Marxism-leninism. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 9 points 11 months ago Technically it's for Mali, and was chosen because it's cheap, though it is a neat coincidence. permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (1 reply) [–] infin -4 points 11 months ago For real. At least Kim Jong Un has a cool leather jacket and rad sunglasses; Lenin's legacy's a bit shit. Nestor Makhno, though... That's someone to idolize! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] davel@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) At this point this obsession with Lenin becomes truly annoying. https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Lemmy Lemmy was created in August 2019 by two communist developers known as Dessalines and Nutomic. Their goal for Lemmy was to provide an open-source alternative to Reddit that anyone could self-host and federate with other Lemmy instances, effectively exchanging content between platforms. from russian accounts Uh no, that’s BlueAnonsense. Previously. And then fun part is that this quote is, in fact, turned to be a manipulation speech to push and encourage workers to revolution only to not keep his promises and indeed to do everything for the survival of his new regime. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago (3 children) Lenin was correct, and still is today. Lemmy was made by communists, communists have been here since the beginning. I'm not Russian either. Lenin kept his promises, the soviet union dramatically uplifted the working classes, doubling life expectancy, democratizing the economy, and developing out of the feudal squalar they existed in beforehand. Communism is the answer. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [+] Bazell@lemmy.zip -7 points 11 months ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago* I do, in fact it took a good deal of reading to overcome my anti-communist bias. I used to think the same way, that the soviet union was a disaster, etc. until I started engaging more with history books and Marxist-Leninist theory. Marxism isn't a religion, it's an ideology. permalink fedilink source parent [–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago Funny thing to say from a literal hitlerite permalink fedilink source parent
[+] Bazell@lemmy.zip -7 points 11 months ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago* I do, in fact it took a good deal of reading to overcome my anti-communist bias. I used to think the same way, that the soviet union was a disaster, etc. until I started engaging more with history books and Marxist-Leninist theory. Marxism isn't a religion, it's an ideology. permalink fedilink source parent [–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago Funny thing to say from a literal hitlerite permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago* I do, in fact it took a good deal of reading to overcome my anti-communist bias. I used to think the same way, that the soviet union was a disaster, etc. until I started engaging more with history books and Marxist-Leninist theory. Marxism isn't a religion, it's an ideology. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago Funny thing to say from a literal hitlerite permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 1 point 11 months ago (2 children) Just so you know you're on lemmy.ml right now, and the ml stands for Marxism-leninism. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 9 points 11 months ago Technically it's for Mali, and was chosen because it's cheap, though it is a neat coincidence. permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (1 reply)
[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 9 points 11 months ago Technically it's for Mali, and was chosen because it's cheap, though it is a neat coincidence. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] infin -4 points 11 months ago For real. At least Kim Jong Un has a cool leather jacket and rad sunglasses; Lenin's legacy's a bit shit. Nestor Makhno, though... That's someone to idolize! permalink fedilink source parent