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In reply to the discussion: Believe it or not: Karl Marx is making a comeback [View all]joshcryer
(62,287 posts)Marx did not have many solutions but his support of the vanguard put him squarely in Lenin's camp.
There was no reason for the party wonks to distrust the people, it was all a facade, ran by the top leaders because they were afraid that if the people had democratic action the vanguard would have been rendered useless and the ideas of Marxism would falter. This of course is false.
Trotskyites say that Marx's ideas were corrupted but there's really no evidence for that, you may read my journal if you want to know where I stand on Marx. Good ideas, generally incorrect when it came to actually achieving anything. One excuse is that Russia wasn't in the proper stage of capitalism to transition and that Marx's ideas were based on Germany. This excuse is objectively false.