Lenin by a head and a half. There are no more fascist gummints left, and there are still Communist gummints left. And Communism covered more turf. And it killed more people, as noted above.
You know, Communism's NO DICTATORSHIP. If it'd been just another dictatorship, it would never've outlasted Stalin at the farthest, like Fascism. Instead, it's something else as ugly - a repressive oligarchy, not all that unlike classical Sparta in spirit (see Sparta's tude on property) - a handful of powerful men who have to work together to get things done. The oligarchy's chosen from an aristocracy of Communists instead of Spartiates or other old-style aristocracies. And, no, Stalin never totally hacked it - there're plenty of quotes in Churchill about Stalin regularly having to convince others of things or face consequences, something a dictator has no need for.
Yeah, Hitler had his effect, but less' than's being said on the thread - he invented neither dictatorship, nor nationalism, nor racism - those are all ancient or at latest classical inventions.
Lenin was probably the most extreme of the talented Russian Communists. Communists could easily have won in Russia, but without Lenin, you'd have a pretty different implementation of Communism - possibly even democratic, as Trotsky called for, in which case it would've lost elections to more moderate parties as soon as the commies stopped being able to feed the people.
You know, Communism's NO DICTATORSHIP. If it'd been just another dictatorship, it would never've outlasted Stalin at the farthest, like Fascism. Instead, it's something else as ugly - a repressive oligarchy, not all that unlike classical Sparta in spirit (see Sparta's tude on property) - a handful of powerful men who have to work together to get things done. The oligarchy's chosen from an aristocracy of Communists instead of Spartiates or other old-style aristocracies. And, no, Stalin never totally hacked it - there're plenty of quotes in Churchill about Stalin regularly having to convince others of things or face consequences, something a dictator has no need for.
Yeah, Hitler had his effect, but less' than's being said on the thread - he invented neither dictatorship, nor nationalism, nor racism - those are all ancient or at latest classical inventions.
Lenin was probably the most extreme of the talented Russian Communists. Communists could easily have won in Russia, but without Lenin, you'd have a pretty different implementation of Communism - possibly even democratic, as Trotsky called for, in which case it would've lost elections to more moderate parties as soon as the commies stopped being able to feed the people.