Communism: Debunking the Myth Pt. 1

It seems logical that the first real thing that I try to do in this blog is, just as the title of this post says, debunk what I (and I'm sure other) refer to as "The Communist Myth," and because I have no idea just how long this will take, or I may need to bring it up later, I am doing this in parts.

So what is "The Communist Myth?" To put it simply it is a fundamental misunderstanding of what Karl Marx (and Engles to a lesser extent because the man was a blockhead as far as I am concerned) wrote, what Communism was intended to be, and all of the things that went wrong in what is known, generally, as "Revolutionary Marxism." I have not studied Revolutionary Marxist nearly a much as Marxism "Proper," but I do know what I am talking about, and because it seems to be the biggest hang-up for people in the U.S. I am going to deal with it first, and it may very well take up this entire post, but will inevitably include some discussion on what Marx was, and what he though Communism would be.

But before we can get into that we need to get up a basic understanding of what Marxist theory is in terms of human social evolution. As for Marx and his thoughts on Capitalism and his political-economic theory in general, it's less important to discuss at the outset due to the fact that Revolutionary Marxism didn't disagree much with Marx's base-level assumptions and lower-level conclusions regarding economics, so we can touch on it, especially in more depth later.

Revolutionary Marxism, known more specifically as Bolshevism, and more commonly today as Leninism, is a politically theory that was developed by none other than Vladimir Lenin himself. Lenin was the founder of the Soviet Communist Party, he spearheaded the Russian Revolution that overthrew the Czar in 1917, and his political theory became the philosophic backbone of nearly every communist revolution of the twentieth century. But what was his theory, and how did he deviate from Marx? However, I want to get this post up, so I will get into that in my next installment that I will begin writing the moment I post this one.