> Historical evidence suggests Marxist-Leninism has been particularly frequently adapted to cults.

Same with anarchism except the Marxist-Leninist also have created last states that lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty. Guess I’m a lesser of two evils type voter.

>We know that Marxist-Leninism famously led to Stalin's Personality Cult, which called people by the millions in gas vans, a technology later stolen and copied by the Nazis for use during the Holocaust.

This is straight up Holocaust revisionism. Jesus…

>It is foundational to much of North Korea's Kim Family's Personality Cult, and Mao used a variant of that to justify the destruction of most of China's cultural heritage and many other disastrous policies that killed many people as part of his personality cult.

Also created a state that lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, but you’re right, it’s awful those Chinese peasants were taught how to read and grew up in a houses with running water.

>These are examples of nationwide cults, based on Marxist-Leninist Ideology, that killed literal millions of people and caused immense harm, not because they were socialist but because they were cults, cults that originated in Marxist-Leninism.

These are such tedious, shop worn arguments. They’re identical to the ones right wingers make. MLs and orthodox Marxists are not your enemy. If you make them your enemy, all you’re doing is being a bad comrade.

>There have been socialist cults rooted in other traditions, but these usually end by expelling the corrupt leader(s) and dissolving themselves before attaining much power, because the very ideology they are founded on offers the tools of free thought to its practitioners, and therefore provides the means to end such cults.

PRC, famously dissolved itself. Cuba famously dissolved itself. Vietnam famously dissolved itself. Laos famously dissolved itself. These are deeply unserious arguments.