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...sway and spellbind. Standing, on another day, atop a rain-drenched knoll with his Adventist father and nine of the faithful awaiting the second coming of Christ, he feels his faith oozing away. He turns to the prophets of social revolution, soaks up the teachings of Proudhon, Marx and Bakunin. and becomes a labor organizer. But a violent and bitter strike convinces him that his new gods are false. At novel's end, Chester Nimmo, over 21, is clean of illusions", and ready for whatever further adventures life and Author Gary have in store for him. That there will...
...Earlier Socialist internationals: the First International launched by Marx and Engels in London in 1864, which was split by the Russian anarchist Bakunin a few years later; the Second ("Social Democratic") International, founded by Karl Kautsky, George Plekhanov and others in Paris in 1889, which fell apart in World War I; the Third International (Comintern), set up by Lenin in Moscow in 1919 and officially dissolved by Stalin in 1943; the Fourth International, Leon Trotsky's splinter Communist party, which he set up in Mexico in 1938 after Stalin drove him out of Russia...
...bookstacks, he had read Bakunin, who dreamed of absolute freedom; Marx, who dreamed of absolute politico-economic science; and Rousseau, who dreamed of justice. More important, he had read the Prussian General Karl von Clausewitz, who dreamed of power. The more Lenin schemed and struggled (in the bookstacks) for the revolution, and was thwarted, the more he thought of power. He made marginal notes on Clausewitz. "How true!" Lenin wrote. "Clever and witty." Admiringly, he summed up a Clausewitzian point: "War as a part of a whole, and that whole-politics...
...bewhiskered giants of 19th Century socialism, Karl Marx and Mikhail Bakunin, split over the issue of compulsory state planning v. the free action of voluntary associations of workers. Said Bakunin in 1872: "Marx is an authoritarian and centralizing communist. He wants what we want: the complete triumph of economic and social equality, but he wants it in the state and through the state power, through the dictatorship of a very strong and, so to say, despotic provisional government, that is, by the negation of liberty. . . . We want the reconstruction of society . . . not from above downward . . . but from below upwards...
...intelligent Communist leader. Marx falsely accused Weitling of being a literary crook and hounded him to the U.S. Another target was Ferdinand Lassalle, brilliant founder of the German Social Democratic Party. Marx somewhat inconsistently referred to Lassalle as "Baron Izzy" and "the little Jew." Another victim was Michael Bakunin, an ardent Russian anarchist who threatened Marx's, control of the First International (founded in 1864 in London). Marx charged Bakunin with shady financial dealings and with being a Czarist agent. He could not make the charge stick, but Bakunin withdrew to lick his wounds...