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You need to take power in a way that doesn't make a majority of the population hate your guts. Democracy is the worst system of government, except for all the others.
You say that as if communists don't want democracy. I want the highest degree of democracy possible, I just understand that the material conditions that allow revolutions don't always allow for extremely high democracy at the beginning, and how a vanguard party of communist intellectuals can initially serve well to guide an uneducated populace or, worse, educated against communism as we are now.
The way to such a system can't be through a violent uprising, you'll be seen as illegitimate and opportunists. Revolutions themselves are very volatile points in history, and it can be very easy for the wrong person or set of people to take the reigns of power. We don't want another Stalin or Mao.
Speak for yourself.
Oh, so you're into fascists?
To ask that is to understand neither fascism nor communism.
Your heroes tick all the boxes.
Thank you for Merriam Webster’s definition of fascism; now I am enlightened.
I don’t know why I wasted so many hours studying communism and fascism when I could have simply looked them up in the dictionary.
Do you want anybody else's? Or do you deny what words mean? Thanks for the insult. At least I don't worship fascists.
Oh look, holocaust trivialization from an "anti-authoritarian"