A Marxist-Leninist, a type of Authoritarian Communism. In political science, Marxism–Leninism was the official state ideology of the Soviet Union (USSR), of the parties of the Communist International after Bolshevisation and it is the ideology of Stalinist political parties. The purpose of Marxism–Leninism is the revolutionary transformation of a capitalist state into a socialist state, by way of two-stage revolution, which is led by a vanguard party of professional revolutionaries, drawn from the proletariat. To realise the two-stage transformation of the state, the vanguard party establishes the dictatorship of the proletariat, which determines policy through democratic centralism.

If you're going to argue that any invocation of a Marxist-Leninist state is going to lead to people like Stalin becoming Strongman and taking power, then, like, that's a pretty fuckin' anti-ML take there.

ML by cjsnow1 August 28, 2019