[throwaway84742]

>> and neither would Lenin

I grew up in the USSR, and this is news to me. Do you have evidence in favor of this claim?

[monocasa]

I mean, that's the whole distinction between Marxism and Leninsim, right? The idea of a vanguard party that facilitates the transition to communism? I can't imagine that Lenin would look at Stalinist USSR, and say "oh yeah, we've actually transitioned to communism now".