1.0 link Rainbow Dash Network http://rainbowdash.net/ Rarity (rarity) http://rainbowdash.net/rarity http://rainbowdash.net/notice/3989506 @<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.