Word: leninistes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aligned states like the Russians more than they do the United States and therefore are less disposed to censure Soviet policies. Many of them certainly have good ideological reasons for such a preference. Tito and Castro are avowed communists, and some neutrals with colonial memories slip easily into a Leninist conception of capitalist states as inherently exploitative and aggressive in their foreign policies...
...Cuba, Laos and Iran, Lippmann was given a lesson in Leninist doctrine: "For Khrushchev these three are merely examples of what he regards as a worldwide and historic revolutionary movement which is surely destined to bring the old colonial countries into the Communist orbit" Lippmann got the impression that to Khrushchev "it is normal for a great power to undermine an unfriendly government within its own sphere of interest " deduced from this that "Khrushchev thinks much more like Richelieu and Metternich than like Woodrow Wilson...
...Once one of us was invited to attend a discussion meeting of a few young bureaucrats from a certain ministry. There he had the frightfully uncomfortble experience of listening to them expound the notion of the inherent inefficiency of the parliamentary system. They exhibited a peculiar combination of Marxist-Leninist contempt for parliamentarianism as a bourgeois facade with the impatient frustration of bureaucrats at the irritating inefficiency of the parliamentary procedure...
Communists, said Lenin in 1919, must be prepared to "make very frequent changes in our line of conduct which to the casual observer may appear strange and incomprehensible." Communists continue to follow the Leninist doctrine of "very frequent changes" to create confusion and disunity among their enemies-and Nikita Khrushchev is a seasoned practitioner of the art. The "great flights" of attitude that President Eisenhower noted in him spring not just from an erratic personality, as is often thought, but from Communist tactics. It was in keeping with Leninist tactics that, following his threat-shouting, table-pounding press conference...