Re: [Trisquel-users] EU: All your internet are belong to us

[dguthrie]

Ugh... Don't defend Lenin, ever. There's little that was good about him, for  
example he opposed free speech, presided over political violence, and  
destroyed any force that dared oppose him, like the Ukranian Free Territory  
and the Kronstadt rebellion. He was awful in the end. Not as awful as the  
later rule of Stalin, granted, but not worth defending at all. Oppression is  
oppression no matter how it might look from the outside... Also, Lenin did  
not found socialism, just the ideology of Marxist-Leninism. There have always  
been social movements, and things like Marxist-Leninism subjugate rather than  
liberate. It's socialism without liberty, if it's socialism at all, and  
that's frankly horrible. Socialism isn't really something you can say was  
"founded", it is a series of leftwing movements that were formalised into  
specific ideologies, for example there is libertarian socialism at the sane  
time as Marxism (indeed, the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin opposed Marx at the  
1872 Hague Congress).
If you want the good part of socialism read the works of Noam Chomsky:  
https://chomsky.info/
https://chomsky.info/books/
There's no point sticking to dogma written a century ago, when the world has  
changed so much. It leads to the cult of the leader, etc.