{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Rainbow Dash Network","provider_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/","type":"link","title":"Rarity (rarity)'s status on Monday, 21-Sep-15 03:21:44 UTC","author_name":"Rarity (rarity)","author_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/rarity","url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/notice\/3989506","html":"@<span class=\"vcard\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/user\/60\" class=\"url\" title=\"Scribus Caballus\"><span class=\"fn nickname mention\">scribus<\/span><\/a><\/span> well, you could argue that totalitarianism is necessary to bring about communism.  some people say that &quot;dictatorship of the proletariat&quot; 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."}