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...movie the other night in which one character quoted Lenin as saying the two greatest virtues of the revolutionary were patience and irony. The counsel of patience seems appropriately sage. For, although we are all tired we must continue with more protests, rallies, civil disobedience. More struggle. The cost of doing nothing is too high...
...could argue with Longo's boast, as far as it goes. Italy's robust Communist Party has not just survived, it has thrived. But it has fallen far short of another forecast. At the time of the 1921 Leghorn meeting, it was the view of Lenin and the Comintern that Italy had all the "required conditions to guarantee the victory of the great proletarian revolution." Lenin, in fact, saw not only Italy but much of Western Europe as ripe ground for Communism, thanks to its broad base of industrial workers. Today there are Communist or Marxist regimes...
...than ever. But the Kremlin's influence is still so pervasive that for countless voters, as French Socialist Guy Mollet once remarked, "The Communists are not of the left but of the East." As long as that is true, Western Europe will continue to make a mockery of Lenin's expectations...
...make public a resume of their discussions. He has discouraged the adulation normally conferred on a party chief. Though Gomulka's portrait has come down from office walls throughout Poland, the new boss has told aides that they can put up pictures of the Polish eagle or Lenin, but not of Edward Gierek...
...with gluttonous enthusiasm, the price rises were a direct provocation. Even the poorest family, for instance, sits down to a nine-course "Vigil Dinner" on Christmas Eve. So great was irritation over the government's moves that only a spark was needed to transform it into rebellion. The Lenin Shipyards provided that spark...