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A reminder to any right-wingers who may be lurking - Marx is immensely based in this household (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Tankies be reading lots of "theory" but missing the part where Marx wasn't really fond of Russia. ಠ_ಠ

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

tbf that's more to do with their near-total rejection of original Marxist theory in general. All the underlying assumptions that Marx has about the development of societies is rejected in favor of 'Leninism'.

"Death to revisionists!" the literal revisionists cry