I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Leninism,
is in fact, Marxism-Leninism, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Marxism
plus Leninism. Leninism is not an ideology unto itself, but rather another free
component of a fully functioning Marxist ideology made useful by the
『Manifesto』 , 『Capital』 and vital ideology components comprising a full
ideology.
Many communists run a modified version of the Marxism ideology every day,
without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of Marxism
which is widely used today is often called Leninism, and many of its users are
not aware that it is basically the Marxism ideology, developed by Marx and
Engels.
There really is a Leninism, and these people are using it, but it is just a
part of the ideology they use. Leninism is the methodiology: a set of working
methods for achieving the goal of communism. The methodiology is an essential
part of an ideology, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context
of a complete ideology. Leninism is normally used in combination with the
Marxism ideology: the whole ideology is basically Marxism with Leninism added,
or Marxism-Leninism. All the so-called Leninism distributions are really
distributions of Marxism-Leninism!
It's just a funny ML joke using the common GNU/Linux copypasta, I think it's actually really creative and funny for a communist meme, as someone who enjoys those.
as if "Marxist-Leninist" was not dunce slang for stalinist - or who introduced that terminology again?
It's the other way around, "Stalinist" is just slang for Marxist-Leninists used by those trying to invoke western fear of Stalin as slander against communists. Stalin synthesized Marxism-Leninism, but outside of some good advancement of the Marxist theory of the nation, Stalin's own contributions to Marxism-Leninism are extremely minimal, the vast majority is Marx, Engels, and Lenin.
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I don't get it.
Why not refer to liberal democracy as Robespierrism?
who doesn't?