Class Struggle Twisted into Violence
Lenin, Stalin, and Mao warped this concept into justification for bloody purges and executions. They labeled anyone who disagreed as “class enemies” deserving elimination. The Bolsheviks used Marx’s theories to justify the Red Terror, executing dissenters regardless of class. What Marx described as theoretical historical forces became a blank check for brutal killings. In Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge took this to extremes, targeting even educated workers who should have been their allies.
