Marxist Theory: Engels, Lenin, and Dialectical Materialism
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Reading the Classical Text of Marxism by Thomas Riggins
Thomas Riggins: I got interested in philosophy way back when I was a teeny-baufer and grew up in the south. He met some people who were graduating who were in Yipso, which is the Young People Socialist League. They found out that he wasn't interested in joining a fraternity so they said why don't you take over this club? So we made a little league down at Florida State University. We just figured out we should support everybody who called themselves a Marxist Leninist. And therefore we ended up supporting the Soviet Union, North Korea, the Vietnamese, Cuba.
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