re: Nazis and Communists

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You stated that Socialism was not totalitarian. That’s objectively wrong.

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No, I said Marxism was authoritarian, which it is in its socialist phase, and explicitly so. You said it was totalitarian. I've never used the word in this thread.

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I disagree.

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For many Marxist thinkers like Gramsci, Negri, the various French philosophers who have written about Marxism, and the numerous Marxist Feminists, nearly all of them speak of Marxism in its socialist phase, and not the communist (and also utopian) version. Even Structural Marxists and Humanistic Marxists were obsessed with the state power, and the conditions of revolution, rather than the post-revolutionary world. Because the socialist phase is focused on revolutions, it was the primary concern of Leninists and Left-Communists as well. In general, modern Marxists are concerned with the socialist phase.