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...Historicus goes on to trace how Stalin uses the above contradictions...
...known technically in the trade as "dialectical, historical materialism. "It is not new or secret, but it is what, in large measure, makes Stalin Stalin. Much of it was originated by Marx, modified by Lenin and picked up by Stalin. Since Stalin is the living actor on the stage, Historicus for convenience labels any of the theory Stalin consistently quotes as Stalin's theory.* All of Historicus' argument is based on Stalin's words, with Stalin's emphasis, not on the words of Marx or Lenin, except where Stalin repeats them with obvious approval...
...Historicus shows, Stalin and the Leninist-Marxists before him were out to evolve a "science" of revolutions, a way of charting the ups & downs of social systems. This is not quite on a par with the science of physics, but it is at least parallel to, say, the Dow theory of stockmarket behavior. Some stock traders look to the Dow theory to tell them when to buy or sell. Stalin and the other Marxists wanted a theory that would tell them when a "break" was likely in the Imperialist Front. They kept their eye glued to "the material life...
Since World War I, Stalin (following Lenin) has come to believe that the flowing of the contradictions means, not the classical revolutions, but war first, followed by revolutions. Says Historicus: "In Stalin's thinking, the importance of war as a midwife of revolution can scarcely be exaggerated." War, Stalin says, develops a "weak link" in the imperialist-capitalist chain...
...Here Historicus leaves the subject of automatic or "objective" forces that produce revolution, and turns to the other factor: "subjective" force. A revolution brought about mainly by subjective forces would be one in which people themselves simply had the idea for a revolution, and went ahead with it. (Most Latin American revolutions are 90% subjective...