Socialism

Calling my comment where I'm arguing for Marxism "anti-Socialist" is hilarious. Guess only the one form of Socialism that the mod likes is real Socialism, huh?

Nah, there's no revisionism in my comment.

The reason I said the International Working Men's Association could be considered a vanguard is because the term was not commonly used at the time, but it de facto was an attempt at building a vanguard party. They created a working class party that attempted to organize the working classes and raise political consciousness among the rest of the proletariat.

Secondly, the idea that the Paris Commune was successful is horribly wrong, it lasted a very short amount of time and did not solidify itself. It was a valiant first attempt, but it had serious faults, faults Marx and Engels grappled with for the rest of their lives, analyzing what went wrong.

Third, there is no such thing as a "political class." This is revisionism. The state is not outside of class struggle, it is within and a product of class struggle. The state serves the ruling class of society. Class is a relation to ownership of the means of production. A teacher is not a different class from a principal, even if the principal manages teachers.

Lenin did not "exploit" Marx's writings, he correctly advanced Marxism forward and successfully solidified the first long-standing Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Anyone trying to revise Marxism to create brand-new classes in order to dismiss Lenin is doing a disservice not just to Lenin, not just to Marx, but to the hundreds of millions of Soviet communists that successfully built socialism.

As for Stalin, you didn't really say anything of substance regarding why you think he was wrong. You just repeated Red Scare nonsense and subjectivist appeals to a vague "Stalinist terror," ignoring that the Bolshevik line on the peasantry supported them and focused on their development through the Tax in Kind before even the proletariat. The Menshevik line dismissed the peasantry outright.

As for your point on collectivizing and ending class systems, we already said the same thing. The problem is that you invent brand-new concepts for classes and revise Marxism from dialectical materialism to subjectivism and metaphysics. Classes have dialectical counterparts, and their existence is based on ownership of the means of production. A democratic and socialist state like the USSR that is run by the proletariat is in fact a dictatorship of the proletariat, not a dictatorship of the "political class." Administrators are sub-classes that fall under a given ruling class, and their role depends on how they relate to ownership of the means of production.