Was Lenin on the front line during the skirmishes between the reds and the whites?

yes but the history is done by the masses

there wasn't only a voice too

History is done by those who write, and write do the aristocrats. We then come full circle

no, the masses do the actions; we're materialists

and I said, all for the workers

@Deleted User @Blebleh would be fun to hear both of you in voice chat.

not the bourgeoisie extracting surplus value from the workers

but a planned economy for the workers

There's a fallacy where either you must be in the mob, or in the tower. But in the end the tower doesn't crumble and the mob only settles their implements of harvest

>planned economy

And who plans the economy?

The workers? The people?

yes

Through popular voicing?

soviets

@Deleted User or communist authority.

Authority of the rulers over the mob then

they make surveys and agree on a common program

How does this ensure the workers at all have a say in their fate?

nowadays would be easier and in real time because we have cybernetics

>surveys
>cybernetics

in the USSR the production was directed towards the needs for the war and healthcare for example

life expectancy skyrocketed

the production was being improved over years until the liberal reforms

For an expansive imperium and a docile people

no, the USSR wasn't imperialist

in period of Stalin

Annexing and vassalizing foreign lands is not imperialism?

Or be it colonialism?

which lands?

Eastern Europe and all her peoples, any countries in South America and Africa, promotion of revolutionary movements in Asia and elsewhere

Lenin and Stalin respected the right of nations to self-determination

Would not an emperor subvert his neighbors and colonize foreign barbarians who-do-not-know-the-true-way

they both wrote about it

of course they have to promote revolutionary movements when possible

they're not doing coups, they're helping revolutionaries

Incorporating sovereign nations into a singular unions doesn't sound much like self determination, neither does the suppression of nationalist movements.

@Deleted User inti-imperialism may look like imperialist to an uneducated eye.

Yes I am uneducated because I can see a system for what it is

>helping revolutionaries