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As a statement of principle, the Marxism and Leninism as applied by Lenin and Stalin have nothing to do with socialism. They are complete perversions of the great vision of socialism. And instead of creating a free society of equal chances and international solidarity, they established an especially crude form of capitalism and of national supremacy.
The former Soviet Union had become one of the few countries in the world where the partition between the classes, the ruling class of the Communist Party and the underprivileged class of the proletariat was extensively elaborated and shown openly to the outside world.
But the consequence of the bankruptcy of Marxism/Leninism is now a bias against socialism in general. Today, many more people are busy developing principles to convert socialist countries to capitalism than vice-versa. In fact, you can hardly find anyone nowadays in Europe to defend socialism at all. Socialism is considered as an ideal only for dreamers, bureaucrats, and lazy men. Capitalism has become, in the general impression in Europe, the leitmotif of our time.
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