Exaggeration aside, they studied the French Revolution a lot, and their conclusion was, their own Revolution should be protected at all costs, because counter-revolution would make things even worse than they were at the start. The idea was to liberalize the laws and build your sysem once the revolution was solidified. But you know how these things often go…
Honestly, I see the logic in enacting authoritarian laws during a revolution – it's part of the point. "Nothing is more authoritarian than a revolution", and this isn't just about the Russian one. The problem is, Lenin betrayed several principles by enacting authoritarism and keep things in one piece, and when the country was finally united and pacified, ready for liberalization and building socialism (assuming baldie really intended to follow through, which I think he did), Lenin got 3 strokes and was out, leaving all the authoritarian structure ready for, if not Stalin himself, a Stalin to take advantage of. One bad roll of the dice.
Seriously man, if you can't parse a simple inequality like that, you really have no business talking about it.
user, over 3 billion people are in poverty right at this moment, close to half of mankind. You call this a success? You see wars manufactured for the sake of rich people's profits and don't see a tragedy? Nevermind how many people were killed by communism, because capitalism has about 20 million excess deaths every year. Stop and consider: even with tyrants like Stalin and idiots like Mao, communism still has the moral high ground. So yeah, the jokes about starving under communism are really misdirected.
I urge you, if nothing else, google the difference between subjective and objective violence. It's easy to point at Gulags and blame communism, but then we see 3rd world peasants starving to death aunder capitalism and think "shucks, it just happens, no one's fault really".
I'm sure you have a ready-made answer about why all these 3rd world capitalist countries (which outnumber the developed ones by about 7:1; yep, capitalism is a success) are still poor involving bootstraps or nigger genetics, but if you read actual books instead of Holla Forums disinfographics, you would see that this poverty is by and large systemic, not incidental. No, we can't all be rich. If everyone on Earth woke up tomorrow an ideal Aryan with exemplary work ethics and high intelligence, we still couldn't all be living in developed countries. Have you noticed how few countries managed to become developed in the 20th century? It's not a coincidence.
Here's an analogy that I hope will finally get this point through. You're a diplomat in the 80s, assigned to the USSR. Your life consists of banquets and balls with the Party elites and their families, you have access to foreign goods, you always have luxury seats at cultural events, your house is a veritable mansion and so on. You more or less live with the same comfort as a high Party official. And I ask you: is that representative of life under communism? Of course not. To say so, you would be cherry-picking the elite and passing them off as average.
And when you say something like "USA and Germany and Japan are proof capitalism works"? You're doing the exact same thing. You're pointing to the beneficiaries of a system and claiming everyone else in the system does, or at least can, live as well as them, and that's just plain false. All this "proof capitalism works because Japan" has always been and will always be one immense cherry-picking fallacy.
I'm sure someone will complain about comparing countries with a single country's classes is like oranges and apples, but here the analogy fits. Capitalism is an international system, and has a pecking order, just like any class society. And by the same token, the elite countries live off the work of poor countries. You think the American, German and Japanese middle and upper classes could exist without cheap foodstuffs from miserable Latin American peasants, or cheap labor from Indonesian sweatshops? They couldn't, just like the Party elites couldn't survive without proles slaving away for them. And you and I are the Party elites of the world, thinking everything is just fine and dandy from where we're standing.
And that pic is so absurd I won't even bother arguing, except for saying that Rummel is a joke.
