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Vladimir Lenin. He was the first dictator of the USSR and one heck of a tyrant (e.g., he started the USSR's system of "concentration camps"—his own term for them).

Despite this, today's socialists attempt to portray Lenin as a proto-ecosocialist. As we detail in the RFP paper, "Vladimir Lenin, Ecosocialist?—Life Under Lenin's 'Green' Thumb," this is a disingenuous depiction of Lenin's beliefs. Moreover, their willingness to promote Lenin in any fashion is a window into the authoritarianism that today's socialists condone.

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Few are aware of socialism's strong bias against craftwork (which Marx labeled "craft-idiocy") and small-scale production generally.

The celebrated socialist thinker Nikolai Bukharin highlights the socialist perspective by stating that all small-scale production "must die out."

We explore socialism's vendetta against craftwork in Socialism Say Ch. 6, "Why Socialism Says Craftwork Is 'Idiocy.'"

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There's a secret sauce required to cook up socialism. Socialists say so themselves.

This special ingredient goes by two names: "abundance" (what socialists often label as "superabundance" and "limitless abundance") and "constant overproduction."

Socialism's requirement for a world of overflowing abundance fueled by "constant overproduction" pulls off quite the trick; it's both utopian (as in impossible) and dystopian (as in ludicrously unsustainable).

Learn the details about this absurd premise at the heart of socialist theory in our paper "The Secret Sauce of Socialism." Also summarized in Ch. 10 of Socialism Says.

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Socialist great Fidel makes socialism's view of laziness clear: It's a "crime," a violation of socialism's duty of "from each according to their ability." This duty, by definition, means that slacking is "theft," as Fidel says elsewhere. Fidel attacked the lazy as "thieves" and "parasites" dozens of times, and he's only one of the innumerable socialist greats who do so.

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A society of "interminable meetings"—that's what socialism threatens to be, as even the founder of the Democratic Socialists of America admits. Learn the details in our paper "Four Hours Every Weekday." It's summarized in Socialism Says Ch. 8. And the full paper is available for free at https://t.co/wSIPtWz6zv

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Today's ecosocialists tout Vladimir Lenin—the first dictator of the USSR—as a proto ecosocialist. Not only does this misrepresent reality, but it also reveals the authoritarianism that socialists condone. See the full paper "Vladimir Lenin, Ecosocialist?" (Life Under Lenin's 'Green' Thumb), or the summary in Socialism Says, Ch. 11.

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Socialism is a fundamentally authoritarian philosophy. Like fascism, it's based on compulsory duty and on a society that suppresses numerous liberal rights. Learn the details at https://t.co/GzAhKYy3rg.

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As Fidel explains, socialism's very existence hinges on society having the power to "use" us. Under socialism, who will decide what counts as the "optimal, rational" use of your life? One thing is certain: it won't be you.

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Can you be a democratic socialist and still attack our liberal rights as "rubbish" and "nonsense"? Apparently so. DSA founder Michael Harrington says Marx counts as a democratic socialist despite Marx's repeated disparagement of the concept of human rights.

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Those touted as "democratic" socialists attack alleged parasites in a fashion identical to those socialists seen as authoritarians. Why? Because "democratic" socialism is a sham.

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One example of the misleading selling that makes socialism a sham is how today's socialists hide Marx's desire for compulsory child labor to be a key aspect of education in a socialist society. His plan was that all children nine and older should labor for society every weekday. Learn the details in our paper "Karl Marx's 'Education of the Future.'"

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One of the exceedingly dangerous byproducts of socialism's foundation on compulsory duty is its fascist-like fixation with alleged "parasites" and their suppression. 100s of famed socialists attack "parasites." Fidel did in dozens and dozens of speeches.

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White Supremacists—that's what Marx and Engels were. In fact, their White Supremacist views underpinned their expectation that socialism would rule the world. Their belief that non-Western societies were "barbarian" and "semi-civilized" fueled their thinking that, as socialist author Shlomo Avineri puts it, "the horrors of colonialism were dialectically necessary for the world revolution." Learn more in the Appendix of Socialism Says.

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Socialist icon Che Guevara explains what will bring us happiness under socialism: it's the opportunity to be "conscious cogs" ... cogs he describes as "necessary but not indispensable to the production process." Don't forget you cogs: you're "not indispensable."

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There are numerous ways of demonstrating that "democratic" socialism is really plain old Marxism, the same product socialists have been selling for 150 years. One example: self-proclaimed "communist" Karl Marx is now said to be a "democratic socialist." Learn the details in this paper.