An Anonymous Coward wrote:
Those were all responses to Stalinist practice rather than to
anything Marx or Lenin wrote

BEEEEPP!!! I'm sorry, you don't win the microwave!

Anyone actually familiar with Lenin's writings would realize he was
every bit as bloodthirsty and ruthless as Stalin, he just didn't have
time to kick the Gulag up into high gear the way Old Joe did, though
its outline can already be found as earky as 1918 when the firwst
Soviet forced labor camps were set up, or even earlier in the purge of
the Menshaviks right after seizing power.

And don't forget his famous quote in response to relief efforts for the
volga famine: "Psychologically, this talk of feeding the starving is
nothing but an expression of the saccharine-sweet sentimentality so
characteristic of our intelligentsia."

The idea that evil Stalin corrupted Lenin's pure vision is a
self-serving fantasy by those who still believe in Marxism.

But thanks for playing! As a consolation prize, please pick up a copy
of Adam SMith's The Wealth of Nations, available at a Project Gutenberg
repository near you!

Lawrence Person
Lame Excuse Books
http://home.austin.rr.com/lperson/lame.html