Anyone in here well read on the works of Lenin and the Russian Revolution?

Clearly Lenin is an admirer of Marx and a communist, but before overthrowing the provisional government that overthrew the Tzar .. he talks a lot about how his goals are similar with anarchists as he mentions

“We (Bolsheviks) do not disagree with the anarchists on the question of the abolition of the state as aim.”

& also;

“While the state exists there can be no freedom, when there is freedom there will be no state.”

What exactly was Lenin’s goals with the USSR? Did he plan to phase out the state as he built his communist utopia and it was only stalled by the Civil War and the assassination attempt?

And what exactly was Lenin? Calling him a left-anarchist doesn’t necessarily seem right & Emma Goldman was famously outspoken against the Soviet Union under Lenin.

I don’t think I’ll disagree with anyone who says that communism cannot work without state enforcement, I’m more asking what Lenin’s vision was with the state - whether it was actually practical or not is another discussion.

Asking in good faith and just trying to learn.

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How can we extremists - lovers of freedom and non-violence - hope to create a community of people who share the same principles, if the whole world is occupied by armed thugs calling themselves nation-states and there is nowhere to escape?

History teaches us that it is not easy, even if there are a few success stories. In some cases, it was just the result of a fortunate series of events, as in the case of Cospaia — the anarchist italian Republic.

In others, it was the result of the colonization of new unexplored territories, as in the case of North America, which finally became independent from the United Kingdom in 1776.

But today the world is very different. Still, not everything is lost. Indeed — perhaps for the first time since the birth of the industrial age and the nation-state, we might have the tools to completely overturn this paradigm and create real libertarian communities.

To see how, let us briefly analyse together the thoughts of Timothy May, one of the founders of the Cypherpunk movement and the author of the Crypto-Anarchist Manifesto...

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The full article here: https://theprivacychronicles.substack.com/p/pirate-islands-and-crypto-anarchist

Tell me what you think!