@clousems said in #2:
> Both Maoism and Stalinism are essentially personalized versions of totalitarian communism.
> Leninism is somewhere between the idealized version of communism and the totalitarian.
I know, that is what the websites are saying, but what difference exactly?
@Akbar2thegreat said in #5:
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@absicht_MAUERzuBAUEN> Read them separately.
> This may help you:
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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_communist_ideologiesTried. They only say stuff that are common for communism.
@FC-in-the-UK said in #4:
> Marxism Leninism is the idea that the revolution should be made by "professional revolutionaries" and there should be a "vanguard" to prepare the revolution.
Are you sure? After all, Lenin used the workers to actually do a revolution.
> There are ideological subtleties between Stalinism and Maoism (potentially the Maoist ideology has to do with the cultural revolution), but I don't know enough to reply to your question.
Exactly. I do not know either.
> USSR was already deeply broken, Gorbachev did what he had to do with the crap his predecessors left to him. He launched a policy of restructuration that indeed eventually lead to the end of the USSR, but that was necessary given the circumstances.
He opened way too much. Should have simply shot demonstrations.