The Opium of the Masses
Indoctrination.
Yes workplaces should be a democracy, not the dictatorships that they currently are.
Capitalism does not self regulate, it consolidates. You should try reading Marx and Lenin's actual writings, you seem very earnest and dont come off as a troll. There are multiple free audio recordings on YouTube of their works. Humanity must escape the all powerful driving forces of the profit motives Capitalism enforces or perish off the face of this earth. That process if it is to take place will appear extremely authoritarian to those who value profit above all else.
Investment Capital should not be a prerequisite for workers to own their means of production.
Yes it is, because authoritarianism isn't the end goal of ML. You readily acknowledge that we currently live under an authoritarian Capitalist system, can you tell me what the end goal of this system even is? I mean most workers are one missed paycheck away from homelessness. While vast sums of wealth are horded by the top 1% of society with the only end goal being more wealth being extracted from the working class, with no actual goal besides more profit and greater wealth. The end goal of Marxist-Leninism is a classes society where each person contributes what they can to society and receives back what they need to live a fulfilling life. They are extremely different.
Because very few workers possess class conciousness due to decades of capitalist propaganda.
There is nothing authoritarian about workers owning the means of production, and for the record you live under the authority of Capital everyday.
So you're saying you'd rather have Corporations and Billionaires continue to rob the working class?
I am a tankie and voting for Biden lmao. The Prolitariat must be protected till enough class conciousness is achieved for Socialism to succeed.