thinking about how the disco elysium devs did so much research on communism to make de after deciding to make it more modern rather than dark fantasy medieval that the previously anarchist developers became marxist-leninists
i legitimately don't even know what to do with this information. like generally i see the inverse of this where a lot of MLs clearly haven't read lenin, who was often berated for being, "too anarchist," by other state socialists
because the thing is, lenin was teaching the exact same thing that marx was: that socialism would come in two stages - first the workers' state, which would seek to erode class systems, then when the state is the last class system, the second phase erodes it into anarchism
i legitimately don't even know what to do with this information. like generally i see the inverse of this where a lot of MLs clearly haven't read lenin, who was often berated for being, "too anarchist," by other state socialists
because the thing is, lenin was teaching the exact same thing that marx was: that socialism would come in two stages - first the workers' state, which would seek to erode class systems, then when the state is the last class system, the second phase erodes it into anarchism
i dunno. i've been mulling on it for a few days
sorta-archive can be found here; it's from the disco elysium art book iirc: https://imgur.com/gallery/disco-elysium-outro-by-robert-kurvitz-gktJgHa