lenin_1917 OP wrote (edited )
Reply to comment by ranzinza in /lenin - Vladimir Lenin's Subraddit! A place to discuss leninist principles and ideals free from reactionaries. We welcome people of all leftist leanings, and can't wait to help you on Lenin's teachings and their relevance today. by lenin_1917
I suggest you read some of his works. I'd advise starting with Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism; and State and Revolution. I was once an anarchist too, but once I started reading Lenin myself I found a great intersection between our views. Don't let the failed Russian Revolution cloud your view of one of the greatest liberators of the 20th century. I can't see how you can possibly view Lenin as a fascist - Trotsky and Stalin perhaps, but Lenin always remained a champion of true, proletarian democracy and causes of liberation. Don't see why you have a problem with his violence, either.
ranzinza wrote
Mowing down workers in a strike doesn't scream "liberation" to me. I suggest you read Emma Goldman's and Alexander Berkman's accounts of their time living in 1920's Soviet Russia, and Gregori Maximoff's The Guillotine at Work.
Had I lived there at the time, the Communist Party would have me exiled to Kazakhstan. I do not believe for a second that one could read about Kronstadt and believe Leninism has "a great intersection between [anarchist] views". Lenin's theory was all about centralization of power, and he wrote that years before 1917.
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