Talk:Marxism–Leninism

Why can't I edit the enemies section?
I'm trying to submit, but it won't let me because apparently there's a slur in there, yet I'm not seeing anything that could even be mistaken for one. Is this a bug or something? Please help.

- TFW your entire praxis is just collectively starving everyone to death

DragonRed

DragonRed Matteel; Research the soviets further. When the Bolsheviks make a revolution, the imperialists attack. There is famine while struggling with it. There is famine in the Second World War. Famine is normal during war. As someone whose family has seen socialism, let me tell you that socialism is very good. Of course, it is very bad for asgaparans who believe in news sites and believe in history.

should we make a section describing neo-stalinism?
Like put one of those collapsed sections in the influenced section

Democracy
It claims that "democracy" hates Marxism-Leninism, I think this would best be substituted with liberal, western, or bourgeois democracy that hates Marxism-Leninism as Marxism-Leninism IS Democratic and involves Democratic Centralism binding upon all members of the party, the CIA even admitted that the idea of Stalin as a dictator is an exaggeration and misunderstanding in their document "Comments on the Change in Soviet Leadership from the Central Intelligence Agency" and that the Soviet Union featured collective leadership and that Stalin was merely the "captain of the team" as they worded it. Marxism-Leninism also Features a form of democracy known as people's democracy which was seen in many of the Warsaw Pact nations for example as well as other Marxist-Leninist nations or even non-Marxist-Leninist socialist nations like those in Africa.

Comments on the Change in Soviet Leadership by the Central Intelligence Agency: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80-00810A006000360009-0.pdf?fbclid=IwAR28x5c-GTROxLQT-ZBoTPkTupCV3t1B7qJQNTWVb91qbfHt1nbWhUA_CTU

Soviet Democracy by Pat Sloan https://mltheory.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/pat-sloan-soviet-democracy-victor-gollancz-1937.pdf

Soviet Democracy by I. Trainin http://ciml.250x.com/archive/ussr/english/1939_soviet_democracy_trainin.pdf

Is Soviet Communism A new Civilisation? by Sidney & Beatrice Webb https://mltheory.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/issovietcommunismanewcivilisation.pdf

Workers Participation in the Soviet Union by Mick Costello https://mltheory.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/workers-participation-in-the-soviet-union.pdf

The Soviet Parliament (A Reference Book) by M. Saifulin (1967) https://ia601308.us.archive.org/16/items/TheSovietParliament/The%20Soviet%20Parliament.pdf

Talks on Soviet Democracy by M.A. Krutogolov (1980) https://ia601300.us.archive.org/5/items/TalksOnSovietDemocracy/Talks%20on%20Soviet%20Democracy.pdf

The CPSU in a Soviet Election Campaign by Ronald J. Hill https://mltheory.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/the-cpsu-in-a-soviet-election-campaign.pdf

Constitution (Fundamental law) of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1936/12/05.htm

The Stalin-Constitution by Prof. I. Trainin https://mltheory.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/stalin-constitiution.pdf

Soviet democracy and Bourgeois Sovietology by Marat Perfilyev https://archive.org/details/SovietDemocracyAndBourgeoisSovietology

Soviet Grassroots: Citizen Participation in Local Soviet Government by Jeffrey W. Hahn https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691654065/soviet-grassroots

Stalin and the Struggle for Democratic Reform (Part One) by Grover Furr: https://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/clogic/article/view/191861/188830

Stalin and the Struggle for Democratic Reform (Part Two) by Grover Furr: https://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/clogic/article/view/191862/188831

The Problem with this “Peoples Democracy” is that they could only vote for one party or part allied independents as seen here: So really it was an oligarchy -

--*shows one source, a Wikipedia article*

Me:*shows several sources mentioning this concept*

An opposition party is unnecessary, it is still a democracy. The ruling party is supposed to be a vanguard of the workers, representative of the masses, it was far better than western bourgeois politicians like in liberal democracy where they didn't truly represent the interests of the masses as they would've been incapable of such, bourgeois politicians were just a small minority of the rich and greedy. That is the problem with "liberal democracy". - Proletarian Banner

First of all without any opposition i can not see it as a functioning democracy. As for the vanguard thing what if a large group of workers disagree with how the vanguard party is running things but the vanguard doesn’t listen and there is no way to form a opposition to it because the vanguard banned all opposition to it. Now i actually have to agree with you on issues with Liberals Democracy but this “Peoples Democracy” is 10 Times worse and Technocratic Democracy is the best form of it.

--Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich, that is the democracy of capitalist society. -V.I. Lenin

Also, literally shut up 13 year old lib.

Nicknames of the ideology
"Neo-Stalinism" makes practically no sense as for one "Stalinism" isn't an ideology and is merely Marxism-Leninism. Marxism-Leninism was invented by Stalin and is a synthesis of Marxism as well as Leninism, Leninism being a separate ideology. Also, the nickname "the immortal science", I had thought of this nickname as a joke or some form of irony, however, my fellow Marxist-Leninists unironically refer to it as such one referring to it as the "immortal science of the proletariat", this referring to the concept of Dialectical Materialism DiaMat and how it will always last and always be true. This phrasing the "immortal science" supposedly comes from Enver Hoxha. - Proletarian Banner