Fact-check: “Lenin said: "The goal of socialism is communism."”
Verdict: Misleading (62% confidence)
Within Marxist-Leninist doctrine, socialism is explicitly described as a transitional stage directed toward communism, closely matching the claim's substance—though the exact sentence's primary-source attribution to Lenin remains unverified. However, the claim presents a Marxist-Leninist formulation as a universal truth about socialism, when major democratic-socialist traditions (the Socialist International, the SPD's Godesberg Programme) explicitly reject communism as their goal and distinguis…
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