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| | [[File:Xi-jinping-hope.jpeg|right|200px|thumb|The global elite and American leftists look to CCP murderer<ref>https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/investigators-china-still-harvesting-human-organs-huge-scale</ref> [[Xi Jinping]] for Hope after the election of [[Donald Trump]].<ref> File:Xi-jinping-hope.jpeg </ref> "Socialism with Chinese characteristics" is defined as having your heart cut out while you're still alive.<ref>https://www.smh.com.au/world/chinas-gruesome-live-organ-harvest-exposed-in-documentary-20150407-1mgabb.html</ref>]] | | [[File:Xi-jinping-hope.jpeg|right|200px|thumb|The global elite and American leftists look to CCP murderer<ref>https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/investigators-china-still-harvesting-human-organs-huge-scale</ref> [[Xi Jinping]] for Hope after the election of [[Donald Trump]].<ref> File:Xi-jinping-hope.jpeg </ref> "Socialism with Chinese characteristics" is defined as having your heart cut out while you're still alive.<ref>https://www.smh.com.au/world/chinas-gruesome-live-organ-harvest-exposed-in-documentary-20150407-1mgabb.html</ref>]] |
| | '''Socialism''' refers to a set of related left-wing socio-economic systems based on control by a bureaucratic elite of the means of production (as opposed to individuals personally owning property). It is a failed system.<ref>Multiple references: | | '''Socialism''' refers to a set of related left-wing socio-economic systems based on control by a bureaucratic elite of the means of production (as opposed to individuals personally owning property). It is a failed system.<ref>Multiple references: |
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| | Marxist Socialism, or '''Leninism''', as revised by [[Vladimir Lenin]] and practiced in the pre-[[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]] Soviet Union, was the Socialistic theory developed by Vladimir Lenin during his rise to power. Lenin defined socialism as a transitional stage between capitalism and communism.<ref>"In striving for socialism, however, we are convinced that it will develop into communism", Lenin, State and Revolution, Selected Works, Progress publishers, Moscow, 1968, p. 320. (End of chapter four)</ref> Leninism is totalitarian, with no [[democracy]] and all decisions are made by the leaders of the Communist party. Lenin saw the Communist Party as an "elite" that was committed to ending capitalism and instituting socialism in its place and attaining the power by any means possible, including revolution. Lenin was quite mild on the belief, believing that, though controlling of resources was important, the people's will comes first. | | Marxist Socialism, or '''Leninism''', as revised by [[Vladimir Lenin]] and practiced in the pre-[[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]] Soviet Union, was the Socialistic theory developed by Vladimir Lenin during his rise to power. Lenin defined socialism as a transitional stage between capitalism and communism.<ref>"In striving for socialism, however, we are convinced that it will develop into communism", Lenin, State and Revolution, Selected Works, Progress publishers, Moscow, 1968, p. 320. (End of chapter four)</ref> Leninism is totalitarian, with no [[democracy]] and all decisions are made by the leaders of the Communist party. Lenin saw the Communist Party as an "elite" that was committed to ending capitalism and instituting socialism in its place and attaining the power by any means possible, including revolution. Lenin was quite mild on the belief, believing that, though controlling of resources was important, the people's will comes first. |
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| − | Though [[Bolshevik]] Russia was somewhat more industrial than its former [[Russian Empire|Tsardom]], Lenin's death in 1924 sparked the overthrow of his vision of Marxist–Leninism and the instead the imposition of [[Stalinism]], the other violent, totalitarian belief that went against some of Lenin's ideas (many of Lenin's works were censored by Stalin post-1924). | + | Though [[Bolshevik]] Russia was somewhat more industrial than its former [[Russian Empire|Tsardom]], Lenin's death in 1924 sparked the overthrow of his vision of Marxist–Leninism and the instead the imposition of [[Stalinism]], the other violent, totalitarian belief that went against some of Lenin's ideas (many of Lenin's works were censored by Stalin post-1924). That said, however, there was some evidence that Stalin's totalitarian beliefs were if anything advancements of policies Lenin himself implemented, and that Lenin himself may have been even more ruthless than Stalin in certain respects.<ref>[https://newcriterion.com/issues/2019/10/leninthink Leninthink] at The New Criterion</ref> |
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| | ===="Democratic" Socialism==== | | ===="Democratic" Socialism==== |
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| | ==See also== | | ==See also== |
| | + | * [[Communist origins of Nazism]] |
| | * [[Big government]] [[Welfare state]] leads to [[socialist]] [[Nanny state]], leads to [[communist]] [[Police state]] - Don't think Socialism-Communism is incompatible with [[Islam]]. | | * [[Big government]] [[Welfare state]] leads to [[socialist]] [[Nanny state]], leads to [[communist]] [[Police state]] - Don't think Socialism-Communism is incompatible with [[Islam]]. |
| | * [[Gun control]] - key element to create a police state | | * [[Gun control]] - key element to create a police state |
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| | * [[Essay:Resisting Socialist Landfills]] | | * [[Essay:Resisting Socialist Landfills]] |
| | * [[Champagne socialist]] | | * [[Champagne socialist]] |
| | + | * [[Dirigisme]] |
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| | * Suny, Ronald Grigor. ''The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States.'' (1998) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=24265044# online edition] | | * Suny, Ronald Grigor. ''The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States.'' (1998) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=24265044# online edition] |
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