[Marxism] Revolution shall come from the workers themselves

[Daniel Koechlin <d.koechlin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The whole idea that "benevolent" figures, such as

Lenin, Trotsky, Mao, Castro, or Chavez

wanted freedom, equality and communism is ludicrous.

Every one of them was a power-mongerer who thought he knew best what the 
workers wanted.

Those who decide on how and why to extract the surplus value should be 
the State and its mignons, never the workers. They are stupid brutes 
whose job it is to toil in the factories and sacrifice their lives for 
"national sovereignty".

The belief that any one of those bosses (Lenin, Trotsky, Mao or Castro) 
wanted a REAL revolution is typical of idealists who live in nations 
where there are feeble (or strongly suppressed) "union struggles". Not 
having anything worthwhile to do, they start supporting oppressive regimes.



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