Word: marxisms
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...economics minister and central planning board chairman. That was not all. Communist China's economy has produced more bad news than goods, and Russia's growing difficulties with Rumania are largely the result of its efforts to impose an unwanted economic strait-jacket on that country. Marxism has made a mess of economics...
...find legitimacy in a family tree or by divine right. Unlike democrats, they do not draw their mandate from the people they rule. Communist legitimacy, such as it is, derives from the writings of Karl Marx and from the words and deeds of Lenin, the first man to apply Marxism to a living nation...
...better of the argument-at least on paper points. But Khrushchev argues effectively that Marxism is not a fixed dogma, but a method that must be applied to different conditions of each era-for instance, to the nuclear age, which drastically changes the nature of war. It is not enough simply to "get out the book and look up what Vladimir Ilyich said. We must do our own thinking, study life diligently and analyze the contemporary setting...
Lenin owes nearly as much to Machiavelli and Von Clausewitz as to Marx. He passionately believed in Marxism-but he also believed in using any means to help it win. Thus what he did is at least as important as what he said. In the last analysis, Leninism is Lenin's life. He remains pertinent not only because his successors keep invoking him, but because he epitomizes in his career so much of later Communist history and so much of what is unchanging in Communism's nature...
Cleared Smoke. The triangular division that Marxism is so prone to became evident even before Lenin's death in 1924. The right wing of the Central Committee was led by Bukharin, who wanted an even wider application of the NEP; the center was dourly controlled by Stalin; and the left followed Trotsky and the flamboyant Zinoviev. When the smoke cleared, Trotsky was again in exile, Zinoviev and Bukharin were dead, and Stalin was in power...