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...WHEN LENIN wrote about imperialism in the early years of this century, he was describing a specific phase in history. In the last few decades of the 19th century, the European powers reversed their previous commitment to free trade and an enlightened colonial policy, erected tariff walls and began a new scramble for overseas territories. By the turn of the century, most of the Third World had been divided among the great powers and the growing rivalry, punctuated by periodic near-clashes over colonial interests, pointed to the outbreak of World...
...cavalry exploits during the Russian civil war of 1918-21; in Moscow. A chunky, instinctive fighter with an elaborate mustache, Budenny was named one of the original Red Army field marshals in 1935 and commanded the ill-fated southern army during World War II. Budenny won the Order of Lenin eight times, most recently in April of this year...
...LENIN HAS already said it--and I have increased the figure to mean more for my country--Lenin said that a professional, a technician, was worth 10 communists; I say 50, or 80 socialists. I am a socialist. It hurts my companeros that I say this, so why do I say it? Because I have lived during the politicization of a university, which can be carried to such an extreme that a student forgets his first responsibility. But a contemporary society requires a high technical capability from the revolutionaries--both to perform and to teach. In this way, the university...
Thus has the dialogue been joined--first between Edward Bernstein and Marx's heir, Kautsky, then between Lenin and the western European Social Democrats, continuing to the present day. The dispute has split the Left in countries on every continent and had more than a tangential effect on the course of recent history...
...become a warped government by a bureaucratic elite. Josef Stalin set out to build socialism, but he turned it into a new form of oppression hardly more acceptable than its capitalist adversaries. Leonid ceptable than its capitalist adversaries. Leonid Brezhnew, the final product, has as little in common with Lenin or Trotsky as does Richard Nixon...