[Vladimir Lenin looking pensive]
To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament - this is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarism.
Vladimir Lenin
The State and Revolution
1917

https://thebad.website/comic/bourgeois_parliamentarism

  • BadOPMEnglish
    1·
    10 days ago

    Two things can be bad at once.

    What the USSR became doesn’t invalidate Lenin’s critiques of capitalism and bourgeois society.

    • Zombie@feddit.ukEnglish
      51·
      10 days ago

      Lenin’s moral authority to proselytise vanished during his time in power. There is no need to quote him like this, and therefore portray him in a positive light, when others have said similar before, during, and after his time.

      For example:

      A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

      • Lysander Spooner, 1808 - 1887

      https://www.anarchistquotes.com/lysander-spooner-quote-anarcho-individualist-4/

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysander_Spooner

      • BadOPMEnglish
        2·
        10 days ago

        I have no issue portraying Lenin’s many contributions to marxist theory in a positive light.

        It is possible to condemn one’s actions where appropriate while still acknowledging they were right about other things.