[dragonwriter]

> Marxism–Leninism follows the ideas of Marxism and Leninism

Well, that's the marketing PR of Leninism, which has been uncritically accepted by those who oppose both Marxism and Leninism without really understanding either. Leninist vanguardism, in reality, rejects a number of fundamental elements of Marxism in order to bypass essential preconditions -- such as the existence of a developed capitalist society to build on -- in order to develop a theory of how to pursue goals similar to those expressed in Marxism in places where the essential prerequisites Marx saw were not present.

[ZenoArrow]

I don't care whether it's Marxist, or Marxist-Leninist, or whatever you want to call their approach, the point is that both Marx and Lenin saw a dictatorship as a necessary intermediary step towards communism, and that's a fundamental mistake regardless of the window dressing that surrounds it.