Word: leninization
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...from the American soil," will be firm in the belief that "every man is as good as his neighbor, if not better"; will support "the ideas of Jefferson as against the more aristocratic and monarchical conceptions drawn from Europe"; and will have for his prophets not Marx, Engels and Lenin (to whom he will be respectful) but Thoreau and Emerson; and for his poet, Whitman...
...First International had been broken after the defeat of the Paris Commune in 1871; the Second (Socialist) International had been irreparably weakened by World War I; but neither had committed suicide. And the Third International was a creation of modern Russia's founder, Stalin's master, Nikolai Lenin. Summoned by that greatest of revolutionaries, 51 delegates from 30 countries, including the U.S., met in Moscow in March 1919 to try to unite the working-class movements of the world...
Natalie Sedova Trotsky: "It is now clear to the world that the tradition of the October Revolution and of Lenin and Trotsky is carried on only by the Fourth [Trotskyite] International...
Hook's most recent example of the event-making man is the Marxist hero, Nikolay Lenin. Hook disagrees with historians who read the Bolshevik Revolution into history as inevitable. What insured the successful culmination of the revolution was the fact that the individual hero, Lenin, was present. The evidence: Lenin returned to Russia on April 3, presented his thesis on April 4, called for the overthrow of the Provisional Government by armed insurrection. He demanded immediate cessation of the war against Germany. He cried "turn the imperialist war into a civil war." A bombshell, Lenin's opinions outraged...
...before the month was out he had armed his party with a complete set of objectives, new, undreamed-of. During the June days, Bolshevik leaders wanted an all-out attack on Kerensky. Lenin restrained them by force of will, warned them that the uprising would be abortive. In October he felt it was then or never, but his party had slowed down to a snail's pace. He debated and won them to his position. Concludes Hook: "If Lenin had not been on the scene, not a single revolutionary leader could have substituted...