timschochet
Footballguy
Exactly, and Lenin in fact recognized this, which is why he wrote that there would have to be a central committee to represent the proletariat and that this central committee would have all power. That was the theory, Lenin’s theory.Which is a failure of communism from its foundation, because there is no such thing a pure proletariat. (Not that other forms of government don't suffer similar types of foundational failures, because they all do)
In actuality the central committee ended up being dominated by a few individuals who took power, and those individuals ended up being dominated by one man who took sole power, and this pattern repeated itself in all 20th century Communist countries, (China, Vietnam, Cambodia, the Congo, etc), with the exception of the Warsaw Pact nation’s whose leaders were dictated by Moscow.