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The Foundations of Leninism - Joseph Stalin

Red Menace

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Marxism or Barbarism?

There was an optimism, both in the inevitability of socialism and the time span upon which they predicted that this inevitability would come about. It is sort of tragic, in a way, when you look back and read these wonderful thinkers because they did seem so convinced that we were to make progress much faster than we actually did. And that optimism, i think, often misses the fact that while we are adoptive in our strategy, and we, you know, change according to what is necessary, capitalists do the same thing.

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