My Thoughts on Communism & Is USSR Socialist/Communist?

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In this video I give my thoughts on Communism as what it truly is, despite it having various forms of it, Communism in it's very essence is Anarchist, the difference is how to achieve said Communism. One side is via 'Dictatorship of the Proletariat' where the State remains & is said the Working Class is the only Class & Party of the State thus gradually changing Private Property into Collective (or Common) Property of the Means of Production. The other is removing the state altogether & instantly transforming society into Communism instead of making gradual changes within Society like the first one. And this is where it fails, firstly Karl Marx did not write much about the nature of the dictatorship of the proletariat, with his published works instead largely focusing on analysing and criticising capitalist society, according to his theory, the existence of any government implies the dictatorship of one social class over another. The dictatorship of the bourgeoisie is thus used as an antonym of the dictatorship of the proletariat. Marxism–Leninism follows the ideas of Marxism and Leninism, seeking to establish a vanguard party, to lead proletarian uprising, assume state power on behalf of the proletariat, and create a single party socialist state. The socialist state, representing a dictatorship of the proletariat is governed through the process of democratic centralism, which Vladimir Lenin described as "diversity in discussion, unity in action." Marx & Engels know of the existence & purpose of the state: "All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy." - Marx, Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right (1843) "The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For this reason, the state must confine itself to formal, negative activities" - Marx, Critical Notes on the Article ‘The King of Prussia and Social Reform. By a Prussian’ (1844) "The democratic petty bourgeois, far from wanting to transform the whole society in the interests of the revolutionary proletarians, only aspire to make the existing society as tolerable for themselves as possible. ... The rule of capital is to be further counteracted, partly by a curtailment of the right of inheritance, and partly by the transference of as much employment as possible to the state. As far as the workers are concerned one thing, above all, is definite: they are to remain wage labourers as before. However, the democratic petty bourgeois want better wages and security for the workers; in short, they hope to bribe the workers" - Marx & Engels, Address to the Central Committee of the Communist League (1850) By the time he wrote The German Ideology (1846), Marx viewed the state as a creature of the bourgeois economic interest. Two years later that idea was expounded in The Communist Manifesto: "The executive of the modern state is nothing but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie." I myself don't trust or advocate state power as is proven with the USSR that it was a 'Dictatorship of the Proletariat' then became 'Dictatorship of the Bourgeoisie' where the state gave the illusion & facade of the Proletariat control of said state through Left Rhetoric & Propaganda. The USSR was very Bureaucratic & Capitalistic in it's own right (e.g New Economic Policy, i.e State Capitalism) Lenin himself desired, promoted and acknowledged the State Capitalist nature of the Soviet Union, although this was largely confined to intra-party debate and private letters. The destruction of council democracy and the introduction of 'War Communism' was the point at which the Bolsheviks introduced it to Russia, and it was consolidated by the 'New Economic Policy'. This is in direct contrast to latter-day leninists and trots claims of the USSR under Lenin and Trotsky as genuinely socialist. Lenin wrote: State capitalism would be a step forward as compared with the present state of affairs in our Soviet Republic. Source: http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1921/apr/21.htm - this writing also has much more on state capitalism. Lenin wrote: The state capitalism, which is one of the principal aspects of the New Economic Policy, is, under Soviet power, a form of capitalism that is deliberately permitted and restricted by the working class. Source: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1922/nov/14b.htm Hope you enjoyed the Video, please give a like & share the video around, it'll help me out allot, if you enjoy the content we create go ahead and Subscribe & follow us on various social media, we'll see you comrades on whatever video we make. Follow Me on Twitter: http://adf.ly/1bbCAf Like my Facebook Page: http://adf.ly/1bbCBf +1 me on Google+: http://adf.ly/1bbCDE