By the way, for example, this is what Petr Kropotkin, an anarcho communist from Russia, said about Lenin:
“Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none.”
"Vladimir Ilyich [Lenin], your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold. "
And he wrote two letters to Lenin that you can read:
Petr Kropotkin: Two Letters to Lenin
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/kropotkin-peter/1920/letters-lenin.htm
This is what he said about trying to use the state for socialism:
"There are those, on the one hand, who hope to achieve the social revolution through the State by preserving and even extending most of its powers to be used for the revolution. And there are those like ourselves who see the State, both in its present form, in its very essence, and in whatever guise it might appear, an obstacle to the social revolution, the greatest hindrance to the birth of a society based on equality and liberty, as well as the historic means designed to prevent this blossoming. "
And a quote about workers having direct democratic control of society:
"But how do European railways manage without them? How do they continue to convey millions of travellers and mountains of luggage across a continent?
If companies owning railways have been able to agree, why should railway workers, who would take possession of railways, not agree likewise? And if the Petersburg-Warsaw Company and that of Paris-Belfort can act in harmony, without giving themselves the luxury of a common commander, why, in the midst of our societies, consisting of groups of free workers, should we need a Government?"
“Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none.”
"Vladimir Ilyich [Lenin], your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold. "
And he wrote two letters to Lenin that you can read:
Petr Kropotkin: Two Letters to Lenin
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/kropotkin-peter/1920/letters-lenin.htm
This is what he said about trying to use the state for socialism:
"There are those, on the one hand, who hope to achieve the social revolution through the State by preserving and even extending most of its powers to be used for the revolution. And there are those like ourselves who see the State, both in its present form, in its very essence, and in whatever guise it might appear, an obstacle to the social revolution, the greatest hindrance to the birth of a society based on equality and liberty, as well as the historic means designed to prevent this blossoming. "
And a quote about workers having direct democratic control of society:
"But how do European railways manage without them? How do they continue to convey millions of travellers and mountains of luggage across a continent?
If companies owning railways have been able to agree, why should railway workers, who would take possession of railways, not agree likewise? And if the Petersburg-Warsaw Company and that of Paris-Belfort can act in harmony, without giving themselves the luxury of a common commander, why, in the midst of our societies, consisting of groups of free workers, should we need a Government?"
