u/Few-Cardiologist7363

Hello! I'm new to communism and I started reading books I bought to the RCI (the ideas of Karl marx by Alan Woods)

All the Marxist theories makes a lot of sense to me but the book doesn't really explain how did the proletarian state that lenine created in 1917 became a stalinian bureaucracy.

From what I understand the proletarian state is much more democratic that every nowadays capitalist states. So I don't really understand how a real democratic worker state got hijacked by a minority of elites.

And also I know stalitinists are saying this is still communism but what makes trotskysts say this isn't ?

I'm also open to resources to dig this topic further.

Thanks 😁