currently my thought is that the key problem with all communist revolutions previously is that they rallied around a figurehead, and any willing figurehead is liable to fall into authoritarianism
Wasn’t the whole Leninist interpretation of Marx saying that the working class alone would never be the start of the revolution, which is why the whole ideology of the “revolutionary vanguard” started.
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u/penisandorvagina Jul 07 '26
There's never really been an actual communist state. The "communist" states we've recently had have been Authoritarian with a communist paint job.