Rarity (rarity)'s status on Monday, 21-Sep-15 03:21:44 UTC
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@scribus well, you could argue that totalitarianism is necessary to bring about communism. some people say that "dictatorship of the proletariat" means a dictatorship run BY the proletariat, but that doesn't really make sense since that would just be true stateless communism anyway, the people ruling themselves. I always interpreted Marx as meaning that there needed to be strong rulers in a socialist state to transition to Communism. Of course I'm an AnCom so I reject the concept of DotP, but I mean you could say that Lenin and Stalin we're staying true to the concept.
