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Mocking someone and laughing at them is such an unbecoming and unprofessional behavior for a Marxist admin. You should really change your attitude and treat others with respect.

I do. I'm usually the one who insists on doing so. I took an exception in this thread and discussion because the arguments of those who say it's "redundant" are very flawed, yet they are repeating themselves every time. The same way you're insisting on your position, I'm insisting on giving the "redundants" this treatment.

If all Leninists are Marxists then it is redundant. Since Lenin was a Marxist who built on top of Marxism then Leninism is Marxist. Just saying Leninist shall suffice.

Marxism has different branches to it, yes, but hyphenating a term that already includes Marxism makes the first word redundant. It is like saying that there are modes of transportation. A car is already a mode of transportation, but instead of saying “car” to refer to the mode of transportation that is a car, people just say “mode of transportation-car” every time.

That example was extraordinarily silly lol. What's your point? Do you want to convince us not to call ourselves Marxists? Or do you not want to call ourselves Leninists, only Marxists? Vice-versa? What's your point? What are you trying to accomplish with this discussion? Why do you care so much about this? What difference does it make what you call yourself, why do you want us to agree with you? You wouldn't be insisting on this scholastic and irrelevant "issue" if you didn't have a purpose. So if you want to be taken seriously, please be clear on what you're trying to accomplish, because I can only see someone in confusion and trying to confuse others in the process.

To call oneself a Leninist, while a historical term, Marxist-Leninist, already exists, seems like trying to diminish Marx. To call oneself a Marxist claiming "Leninism" is a redundancy seems like trying to diminish Lenin. The term, Marxism-Leninism, a historical term, already exists, and based on that, many revolutionary theories were developed. There's no need to reinvent the wheel.

Both Marx (and Engels by extension) and Lenin were extraordinarily important in developing a revolutionary worldview. It's important to preserve their names as they are both an unavoidable source of knowledge. Removing one or the other completely scars both. Just so you see how this is important, there are a lot of Marxists who ignore Engels' contribution, I'd say simply because Marx is more known than Engels, and thus, more prone to be read. The fact that our science is called "Marxism" undoubtedly has contributed to this. So preserving Marxism-Leninism is important to not diminish the contributions of one or the other.

Notice how there are people who call themselves Marxist-Leninist-Maoist. Don't they attach to Mao a greater importance than most Marxists-Leninists? Again, it's not a coincidence, it's a reaffirmation of a position, like I mentioned, and also a reaffirmation of the theoretical body of work responsible for that position.