Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology.
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The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike.
I'm a Leninist. Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that's my goal, too. I want to bring everything crashing down and destroy all of today's establishment.
Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.
Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
I'm a Leninist. Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that's my goal, too.
Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.
The important part of Marxism was its demand for active, constant, practical, class-war.
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