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Re:Co-founder Joe Lonsdale: Palantir was founded to kill com... by immibis on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @08:04PM (#46521169)
where is that popular, and what is a proletariat?
Re:Co-founder Joe Lonsdale: Palantir was founded to kill com... by wk_end on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @10:13PM (#46522076)
To clarify what I meant, Marxism and its descendants (Marxism-Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism, Juche, etc.) are the most “popular” forms of communism. By which I mean: they’re what was implemented in most (all?) countries that had communists seize power - the USSR, China, Cambodia, Vietnam, North Korea, Cuba, and so on. In university we read Marx, not Bakunin; in Canada we have a Marxism-Leninism party, not an anarcho-communist party. Etc.

If you’re asking the latter question in good faith, I’d encourage you to consult Wikipedia; it has good articles on both the term “proletariat” and Marx’s phrase “dictatorship of the proletariat”.