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we got an explanation when my class read it but for some reason the interpretation was basically lenin = good and stalin betrayed the revolution.
i think our teacher was a trot
ive never read animal farm but I thought that was the intended reading
pretty sure it is. blair was still nominally a "socialist" even if a total POS
even in my most anti-communist youth there was always a seed of "what-if" lenin didn't die would the communist project have succeeded. i just thought it was a historical one-shot that never could be repeated
fucking great man theory BS