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.
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/
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