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Re:Gap to close all 81 stores in UK and Ireland by dragonwriter on Thursday July 01, 2021 @12:27PM (#27700890)
> A lot of what is commonly believed about socialist countries is in fact propaganda by capitalists

That’s...true, but not in the way you seem to intend it. The focus on regimes espousing Leninism and its descendants to typify “socialist countries” as opposed to those following what Marx described (and objected to, but Marx doesn't encompass socialism any more than Lenin does) as “bourgeois socialism” and “democratic socialism” is a pretty big problem, especially when dismissing Western socialist movements, which are mostly in those categories, not Leninism or its derivatives.

Re:Gap to close all 81 stores in UK and Ireland by lucian1900 on Thursday July 01, 2021 @01:07PM (#27701477)
And yet it’s the Marxist-Leninist revolutions that freed their peoples from imperial occupation and exploitation.

Lenin expanded on Marx, but did not reject his work.