Word: lenin
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...Born Illich Ramirez Sanchez in Venezuela in 1949, the man later known as Carlos the Jackal was a red-diaper baby ? hence Illich, Lenin?s middle name ? sent by his wealthy communist parents to university in Moscow...
MOSCOW: History, as Marx once noted, repeats itself, first as a tragedy and then as a farce. He was proven right Friday in Moscow as the tattered legions of communism?s true believers took to the streets to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Lenin?s revolution...
...President Boris Yeltsin, who in Soviet times had observed the day alongside his Politburo colleagues saluting passing missiles, made a TV appeal for an end to divisions, and then hurried off to Beijing for a meeting with leaders of ? uh, the Politburo. The only part of Lenin?s legacy still intact on the 80th anniversary is the date: The Bolsheviks swept away the Czar?s 10-month Georgian calendar, commemorating their ?Great October Socialist Revolution? on November...
Then, in the heady 1960s, as a student at Tanzania's University of Dar es Salaam, Museveni plunged into the African freedom movement. He learned guerrilla tactics with the Frelimo rebels of Portuguese-ruled Mozambique. He discovered pan-Africanism and Lenin. "Lenin wrote that imperialism was the economic penetration of backward areas by advanced countries. Colonialism was the political superstructure of this," says Museveni. "The message to us was, Until you get rid of both, you'll never be free, and you'll never develop...
...living in socialist Tanzania in the '70s taught Museveni just how flawed communism was. "Lenin talked only about money going out," he says. "He didn't talk about the wages a company paid that stayed inside the country, or the money paid for power and light, or the raw materials it bought or the taxes it paid. Lenin missed this." Even more important, Museveni saw firsthand that nationalized enterprises didn't work. "Communal property was nobody's property," he says. "So nobody worked. The problem was motivation. None of these fellows had a stake." He opens his eyes wide...