From Philosophical Research
Main entries
- True people versus False people -> I feel like anarchists are the ones who invented this idea — at least in its modern form? there are probably monarchist or Roman counterparts to it that are way worse — but it's also one of those concepts that you could turn around to attempt to explain Leninism to anarchists.
from an anarchist point of view, "True people" are individuals who resist oppression. from Lenin's point of view, "True people" are the ones that successfully work together to build a functioning country rather than defecting. that's also how it basically works from Deng's point of view. this is one of the only things solidly shared between Lenin and Deng Xiaoping, that their model of how a revolution or transition into a workers' state completes isn't solely based on dividing people into classes, and is also partly about loyalty and willingness to become the proletariat assuming that everyone getting converted to workers on state businesses is the particular transition that's happening at the moment.
- True people
- False people
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