Leninism legalized violence and terrorism. What to do?

What is the Leninism?

The Leninism was created by Lenin and his followers. Lenin added to Marxism his contribution to the theories of transition to Socialism and lead the October revolution in 1917. What followed was the reality check. We are still working today on consequences of Leninist way of thinking.

Lenin brought into this transition to Socialism theory the most disturbing human instincts and “legalized” the social revenge, the violent way of taking the power through revolution organized by professional revolutionaries, the Party, on behalf of the proletariat.

The Lenin used the Paris Commune (1871) example and held the power by implementing the terror or the dictatorship of proletariat. The terror was needed to remove different forms of unfit consciousnesses, such as religion, nationalism and all opposition to new rulers. This is the Leninism, Lenin's way to Socialism in the nutshell.

Vldimir Ilici Ulianov - Lenin quotes:

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution (Paris Commune 1871) achieved glory.
There is no morals in politics, there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
A lie told often enough becomes truth.
Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.
It is true that liberty is precious - so precious that it must be rationed.
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

How was the socialism theory before Lenin?

Karl Marx studied the Capitalism and created the vocabulary of the Communism and Socialism.

The class struggle is the root cause of all social changes.
Marxism aims a classless society in which the goods are produced for their usefulness not profitability; and distributed according to the principles of:
In Socialism “from each according to their ability, to each according to their work” and
finally in Communism “from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs.”

The social democrats considered the transition from capitalism to socialism will be when and where the material and spiritual achievement into the most developed capitalist countries get the critical point and the most advanced proletariat will take the political power through elections not through violent revolution.

I see it very moral way by comparison with the Leninism approach. Today's social democrats after the collapse of Soviet Socialism depart from Leninism and think about "The Third Way." To know "My Way" you read "The Escape -Confession of a Refugee"

Was the 1917 Bolshevik revolution a success?

Only two years after the 1917 revolution, the social democrats from Europe said that Leninist violent way triumphed but the socialism was lost.

When the idealistic dreams and communist enthusiasm collided with the famine, civil wars, foreign military interventions and social unrest, the only medicine applied was the terror with army, police and Cheka the secret police.

The Party’s propaganda was mean-less for many and the "many" should disappear. It begun the new era of discordance between the words and the reality.

The Lenin’s ideology of violent transition to socialism into an undeveloped country like Russia was exported by Stalin to create the international revolution.

Mussolini in Italy and Hitler in Germany were socialists. They came to power with the help of specialized revolutionaries in the name of people good and used the personal dictatorship.

After World War II the Communism spread with the help of the Soviet Union’s Red Army into the occupied countries. That added “diversity” to Socialism with terrible consequences for millions of people from Eastern to Central Europe until 1989.

The Romanian Communist experiment deserve a separate page about Ceausescu.

Conclusions after about 90 years

Some consider even today the social revenge as a way of solving their life frustration. We should be aware of that.

This article adds light to transition from capitalism to socialism and puts a name to Leninism. This is a social revenge ideology and we better stay away from it forever. We should be done with the Leninism and look for the Third Way

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