You seem to be confusing the meaning of “middle class” of bourgeoisie. This did not refer to what we think of today as “middle class”. This was in reference to a pre-revolutionary fuedal societies like Tsarist Russia. The “Upper class” being the structures of the monarch. The middle class being the bourgeoisie (the capital owning class). And the lowest class the proletariat (working class).
Obviously when we use bourgeoisie today we do not have a Monarchy. So it is still referring to the capitalist class. Revolutions were fought against monarchs that were replaced by the bourgeoisie (capitalist class). Lenin believed that instead of having a revolution to capitalism from fuedalism, that Russia could transition from a fuedal to socialist society and skip the rule of the bourgeoisie.
Lenin was not “targeting” what we think of today as “the middle class”. If someone told you that without explaining the above history they were either lying or ignorant.
Billionaires are by definition Bourgeoisie as their wealth is earned by ownership of the means of production and not from a wage as workers are. That’s why people like me still use the term “Bourgeoisie” today specifically to avoid confusion with what “middle class” means today. The bourgeoisie is a well defined term by Marxist-Leninist to mean “the capitalist class”.
Lenin and Stalin’s top targets was exterminating all the other socialists, not right wing people. All the members of these 2 socialist parties were either killed or forced into slave labor camps.
You know you could have responded to something I said instead of essentially going: “nuh uh!” And spamming a bunch of links.
Like, do you want to have a conversation or do you just want to vommit garbage in response?
I explained to you how Lenin used the word to refer to the capitalist class and WHY the capitalist class was the “middle class” in Tsarist Russia. Do you want to discuss that? Do you have a counter argument? Or do you just Google “Lenin/stalin bad” and copy and paste a bunch of random links you clearly did not even read.
Like, gee, I can’t wait to read allthatsinteresting.com. I’m sure that will tell me more about Lenin than reading the actual books he wrote. Glad I don’t read books because I have allthatsinteresting.com!!!
You seem to be confusing the meaning of “middle class” of bourgeoisie. This did not refer to what we think of today as “middle class”. This was in reference to a pre-revolutionary fuedal societies like Tsarist Russia. The “Upper class” being the structures of the monarch. The middle class being the bourgeoisie (the capital owning class). And the lowest class the proletariat (working class).
Obviously when we use bourgeoisie today we do not have a Monarchy. So it is still referring to the capitalist class. Revolutions were fought against monarchs that were replaced by the bourgeoisie (capitalist class). Lenin believed that instead of having a revolution to capitalism from fuedalism, that Russia could transition from a fuedal to socialist society and skip the rule of the bourgeoisie.
Lenin was not “targeting” what we think of today as “the middle class”. If someone told you that without explaining the above history they were either lying or ignorant.
Billionaires are by definition Bourgeoisie as their wealth is earned by ownership of the means of production and not from a wage as workers are. That’s why people like me still use the term “Bourgeoisie” today specifically to avoid confusion with what “middle class” means today. The bourgeoisie is a well defined term by Marxist-Leninist to mean “the capitalist class”.
He damn sure was. And him and Stalin were also targeting all the other socialists. And Stalin was also targeting random working class people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_mortality_in_the_Soviet_Union_under_Joseph_Stalin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0967067X97000111
https://www.chinafile.com/library/nyrb-china-archive/who-killed-more-hitler-stalin-or-mao
https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2010/09/naimark-stalin-genocide-092310
https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/ezpp8k/how_many_people_did_stalin_actually_kill/
https://allthatsinteresting.com/how-many-people-did-stalin-kill
https://www.britannica.com/place/Soviet-Union/The-U-S-S-R-from-the-death-of-Lenin-to-the-death-of-Stalin
Lenin and Stalin’s top targets was exterminating all the other socialists, not right wing people. All the members of these 2 socialist parties were either killed or forced into slave labor camps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Revolutionary_Party
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menshevik
You know you could have responded to something I said instead of essentially going: “nuh uh!” And spamming a bunch of links.
Like, do you want to have a conversation or do you just want to vommit garbage in response?
I explained to you how Lenin used the word to refer to the capitalist class and WHY the capitalist class was the “middle class” in Tsarist Russia. Do you want to discuss that? Do you have a counter argument? Or do you just Google “Lenin/stalin bad” and copy and paste a bunch of random links you clearly did not even read.
Like, gee, I can’t wait to read allthatsinteresting.com. I’m sure that will tell me more about Lenin than reading the actual books he wrote. Glad I don’t read books because I have allthatsinteresting.com!!!