muffa on Nostr: > "an attempt to establish everywhere a 'dictatorship of the proletariat', even ...

> "an attempt to establish everywhere a 'dictatorship of the proletariat', even temporary, that would surely follow the path it has already followed where and when it was tried"

i don't think you can say such a thing without talking about the counter-revolutionary character of stalinism and the fact that a revolution as isolated as the Russian revolution of 1917 could only end in the victory of counter-revolution and capitalism, something that was clear to Lenin by the way. socialism cannot exist in one country alone, and it is not enough to stick the label “communist” on it to make a capitalist economy (as soviet state capitalism was) become socialist. otherwise we would have to admit that in China today there is a socialist economy only because that country is governed by a party that calls itself communist.