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11. Why are Communist countries all one-party dictatorships?

WHAT IS POLITICS?

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The Russian Revolution - What Is the Point of Socialism?

As far back as the 1870s, non-Marxist socialists in Russia were making fun of Marxists like Plekhanov for actually being in favor of capitalism. Why did Lenin and Trotsky carry out the Russian-October Revolution when they understood that it was doomed to fail? And what's the point of having a Marxist socialist party in the first place if you're in a country where you can't do socialism according to Marxist theory? All this and more on the next episode of what is politics?

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