Missing frame; where Lenin says, “yeah, me too”.
The man showed up in town after the February 1917 revolution, and then couped the interim government, ignored the free and fair election of November 1917, going so far as to having the winners arrested, you know, the actual communists. Then Lenin invents Vanguard parties (dictatorship) to keep the wrong sort of communists from every holding actual power.
Poor Tim!
Also Lenin: “I am the proletariat.”
Are you joking? Lenin was an autocrat from the get go. Ask the Mensheviks, or the left SR.
Yeah… Unfortunately a dictatorship of the proletariat tends to be hard to define outside of theory.
Well I came to make Tim jokes, but since that’s been covered:
In no longer pretty cities
There are fingers in the kitties
There are warrants, forms, and chitties
And a jackboot on the stairSex and death and human grime
In monochrome for one thin dime
At least the trains all run on Tim
But they don’t go anywhere…- Alan Moore. “Vicious Cabaret” - V For Vendetta
That’s the thing about dictatorships, is eventually it starts being the wrong kind of dictatorship
I always thought “dictatorship of the proletariat” meant “the proletariat is going to have a dictator” rather than “the proletariat is going to be the dictator”. Turns out this is exactly what Lenin meant, too:
The scientific term ‘dictatorship’ means nothing more nor less than authority untrammeled by any laws, absolutely unrestricted by any rules whatever, and based directly on force.
