Lenin betrayed the revolution. You mention the banning of the political parties. While it's true that they "took up arms against Sovnarkom", you're leaving out the part where Lenin used Sovnarkom to coup the newly elected government because his party didn't win.

Again, Lenin was flat out wrong. But I don't think he ever actually cared about Russia ever reaching the true Marxist communist utopia. Lenin cared about power first and foremost.

He built up that dictatorship, and then handed it over to a monster.

[–] pkill 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/01/kronstadt.htm

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not sure what your point is, the Kronstadt rebellion was the final fight of the Civil War that Lenin kicked off in 1917.

Nothing that happened in 1921 changes the brutality of Lenin or his cronies from years prior.

And some apologist writing ten years later is even less convincing.

[–] pkill 1 points 3 weeks ago

Trotsky some apologist the historical ignorance of anarchists is unbelievable