Word: leninization
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...days, workmen had been hustling to decorate Peking's Gate of Heavenly Peace, scene of Red China's monster rallies. Up around the square went pictures of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin. On the facade of the gate towers went huge pictures of sunflowers bending to the sun, symbolic of the world's people being drawn to Chairman Mao Tse-tung. And on the north wall, dwarfing all the other portraits, was a tinted image of the sun god himself...
Surely no man immersed himself more thoroughly in his work. Bing today has no private life, no hobbies, no interest in anything but the Met. To gather strength for each six-day onslaught of problems, he spends all day Sunday in bed, like Lenin lying in state. He is a solitary figure who thinks of himself still as "a guest in this country," and he keeps himself insulated from the rhythms that make other men move. He is Old World to the heart and carries his British citizenship like a shield. As far as Bing is concerned, he could...
...dreadful cabbage; the local preoccupations are football pools, the union and the Labor Party, which replaced (but not satisfactorily) the chapel. The family Bible of the Cotter tribe, awash with tea and sympathetic misery, seems to be those old socialist classics-Robert Tressell's The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Lenin...
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...Lenin's prohibition of private ownership, declared Izvestia, applied only to the bad old days when capitalists were exploiting the workers. But now that there are no longer exploiters and exploited, "whoever thinks personal property means private ownership is in grave error." In fact, explained Izvestia in a wild ideological leap, "there is no gap between private and public ownership. Personal property is just another form of common ownership, both belonging together like the roots and leaves of the trees...