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 Marxism
My form of Marxism defers drastically from what developed in the Soviet Union and China. I do not believe in Socialist planning and neither did Leon Trotsky. Trotskyites also do not believe in bureaucracies. Bureaucracies are doomed to failure simply because they are bureaucracies. This means that we oppose much of the way the Soviet Union was structured. The Soviets created a massive bureaucracy which worked from the top down and was a tool used by people like Stalin to become dictators. We do not believe that socialism can survive without democracy. In a true socialist state power flows up not down. This in fact becomes the ultimate democracy.
What you have seen in the modern communist states is not Marxism as I learned it. It is a defiled form of Marxism.
Capitalism suppresses the masses in favor of the rich few. I despise what America has become under Donald Trump.
I will end this post here but I will discuss individual issues if you are interested.
Martin
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stalhandske
12-Jul-17, 03:55
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This is the original idealistic version of communism. I share the dislike against bureaucracy, but some of it must surely be realised in a functional society? The point is how to prevent it from being corrupt.
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Stalin's reign of terror
Ipsi is correct. I believe Stalin killed over 20 million Russians, which is more than that of people killed in second world war. If Trotsky was a successor to Lenin, Ipsi claimed that it should not happen like that. Lenin did not trust Stalin but before he could choose the right successor, he had a stroke which disabled him and later died from it. Compare Gorbachev and Trotsky. Gorbachev believes something is wrong in communist system and introduced " Perestroika." but it was too little and too late. Gorbachev is a Nobel laureate for peace but Russians see him as a traitor. If Trotsky was in power and became a successor, according to Ipsi he would introduce more democracy and people will have more freedom and prosperity under Marxism. That is a wishful thinking because Marxism cannot survive in democratic system. A staunch communist like Mao ultimately knew the pitfalls of Marxist communism and changed it to free market capitalist economy. This paved the way to shake hands with Nixon, leader of the greatest capitalist nation on earth. The rest is history. If Trotsky was the successor, IMHO he would do the same similar to Mao. Stalin was very stubborn. He would continue with reign of terror until he could succeed under his brand of Marxism. Let me explain further, if you misunderstand me.
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" I believe Stalin killed over 20 million Russians, which is more than that of people killed in second world war."
Unprecise in an histotical point ff view. The number of Russias killed during WW2 is evaluated between 20 and 25 millions (about half of WW2 losses !). But Stalin's victimes number is still amazingly high ! So that it doesn't change much to your statement !
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ptitroque
en.wikipedia.org
Before the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union, researchers who attempted to count the number of people killed during the period of Stalin produced estimates ranging from 3 to 60 million.
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You have to include the people who died from famine. Ukraine alone suffered 2-5 million deaths.
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