Really sucks that the word communism is now used to describe Lenin's legacy. Even the USSR 'communists' said that what they have is not communism.. but 'socialism'.

Prior to the rise of the Bolsheviks, there were a number of Marxists that were equally popular as Lenin such as Rosa Luxemburg. They were opposed to what the Bolsheviks were preaching.

Nowadays, now a listener of Prof. Richard Wolff and his the Democracy at Work project he started.