Quote Originally Posted by Ronin
communism has never caused any terror in the world simply because there as never been any country on this planet that had a communist government (and I don´t even think it would be possible) what you have had over the years are a bunch of dictatorships that call them selfs "communist".........
A common trap... After the revolution, Lenin proclaimed himself a communist, his party communists, and his state a communist state to announce that had succeeded, gain supporters and anger his enemies(he called himself Bolshevik/socialist up to that point). Those socialists who didn't agree with him(which was by far the majority) didn't call themselves communists. Lenin wanted to export his version, calling himself a communist instead of a socialist was a symbol.

So, a communist is one who agrees with Lenin on how to do a revolution, how to keep it and how to build a state.

There are a lot of key differences between a Leninist and a more general Marxist, for example Lenin never wanted factories(the means of production) to be owned by the workers of that factory, but rather by the workers through the revolutionary state(though whether he wanted to hand over that control as the revolution ended is unknown, as he died before his state got a really strong position...).