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So why did continuous Russian Governments throughout the 20THC refer to themselves as a Communist party?
Do you know more about them than they did?
I think you should worry about your own limits of intelligence not mine, Section 8. |
Do I have to post this again? When the October Revolution occured, Lenin was leading the Bolshevik wing of the Russian Social Democratic Party. When they took over government, just the bolshevik wing, they wanted to rename themselves. they chose the communist party of russia. Russia was never communist, this was recognised all the way back to surprisingly, 1917, by the Socialist Party of Great Britain. Trotsky called it in the 20's a 'devolved workers state', and that isn't even accurate.
By calling themselves communist they could get the support of workers and people abroad much easier than saying 'ye, were a bunch of power hungry fuckheads. so love us for it'.
Many at the time argued, including Lenin, that Russia was not communist but, in his own definition of socialism, a socialist country. This is in his definition a tranisitionary stage between capitalism and communism. Russia was so backwards that it required massive amounts of work to simply 'proleterianise' it. That is why Lenin argued his vanguard party, which was already proleteriat, should lead the country to communism.
Bullshit really, he was a great manipulator and he did his job well. But none of this means Russia was communist.