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...they are achieved through a common struggle against common enemies, than that, for me, would be a fairly good working definition of a revolution. Let me add, that I have no doctrinaire view of history which guarantees my success or anyone else's, and neither did Marx, nor Lenin, or Mao. If we fail, we fail, and who is to say that our tragedy will be more debasing than the force of most modern liberal politics and culture...
Fries and his characters are archly precious, their story willfully disjointed in the telling. Elegantly bored, they spend much of their time lounging in bed or bars, or leafing through the works of Marx, Lenin and Stalin in the public library to find pages mutilated or subversive notations made by angrier, cruder objectors to the System. Yet as Arlecq drifts from reflections on jazz music, to two desultory love affairs, to a funeral, to scenes from the failed marriage of a friend, the author manages some artful acts that reveal the writer behind the discontented esthete. Moments of fiction materialize...
Several section men have volunteered to teach specific aspects of imperialism or racism, two of the topics covered in Soc Rel 148, in the proposed course, Finkelhor said. Other sections might discuss strategic questions of how to achieve fundamental social change or read "classical literature such as Marx, Lenin, and Mao," he added...
...Czar Nicholas II. He prepared for his future vocation by distributing Bolshevik literature, beating up "Trotskyites" and studying radio engineering and foreign languages. Now 65, Abel notes that his country, which "values highly the courage, valor and boundless loyalty" of the KGB agent, has awarded him the Order of Lenin, two Orders of the Red Banner, the Order of the Red Star and other medals for his 30-year service...
...Komsomol boasts a proud heritage. In 1918, when Russia's civil war was at its height, the fledgling youth movement gave the Bolshevik cause some of its most dedicated fighters. Their role earned them Lenin's encomium as the "shock forces" of the revolution. There were 22,000 members then, people drawn from schools, factories and farms. They considered themselves "an active, creative force in society, the party's helper and its reserve, a school of Communism for youth...