Stalin killed Lenin and proceeded to make the USSR into a totalitarian dictatorship…
on top of that, the versions of events that we learned are heavily shaped by propaganda….

personally, i think Marxism is fatally flawed, as it calls for a brief adjustment period of totalitarianism just to make sure the capitalists don’t take the country back after the revolution, and every time some group attempts it, the ruling party never lets go of the totalitarianism “phase”….

but that doesn’t mean that lenin and marx never said some good things… they said a lot of great things

this all or nothing shit is why we never progress… there is no country or system of government human being that was all good. we must learn from their failures and successes and create something new

To protect his followers from the capitalists, surely…

It clearly should not be allowed for private ownership of the means of truth creation; education, news media, etc. but the alternative is either state control, or praying that a true grassroots, democratic and consistent news media takes firm and permanent it will not only start but continue. Small wonder the latter hasny had many chances to be experimented with since the chaos out of what is almost always a revolution means when power is taken or “order restored” it again is either capitalists with means to produce news media or the state.

In 2025, costs of production are effectively zero, so it could be done, but now the monster of misinformation–which also has costs of production of zero–is a well oiled and established.

Where do you go from here?