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...Lacy, who showed up with a broken finger, Kozlov quipped that the accident was from an "EastWest handshake." When Nixon introduced House Minority Leader Charlie Halleck as "a tough politician, like you," Kozlov boomed a laugh. He smiled when he called Electrical Workers' Union Boss James Carey a "tradeunion bureaucrat." Introduced to little (5 ft. 10 in.) House Speaker Sam Rayburn, Kozlov observed that Rayburn's opposite number in the Soviet Union is a lot taller. Replied Mister Sam dryly: "I'm kind of like Stalin-they sawed...
Parkes demonstrates that by 1914 the working class had almost universally developed a tradeunion, not a revolutionary, point of view; that the stronger the union movement became, the less revolutionary were its purposes; that the proletariat's size was reduced by machinery, its miseries by reform. Seeing all this, Lenin did not deduce that Marx had been wrong. Instead he formed the Communist Party to lead the working class, not to what it seemed to want but to what Marx had decided it ought to want. And to win the Russian Revolution, Lenin had to diverge from Marxism again...
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