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Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness by int_19h on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @06:50PM (#27043845)
> Marxism-Leninism is a strict subset of Marxism.

Not quite. According to the original Marxist dogma, Russia couldn't become socialist in 1917, since it had too few proletarians, and too many peasants - i.e. it wasn't capitalist enough for a socialist revolution. Bolsheviks disagreed with that, obviously (and some Marxists even say that this forcible approach in a society that wasn't ready for it is precisely why the USSR turned out like it did).

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Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness by sudosysgen on Thursday May 06, 2021 @01:38AM (#27059534)
Lenin himself did not actually disagree for very long. He changed his mind very rapidly (if it was really set) and enacted the NEP. It was Stalin that tried to "force" communism with disastrous effect and killed everyone that disagreed even among the Bolsheviks, which also fucked up the Soviet political system.
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