VLADIMIR LENIN
(Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov)
There was a major policy split between Secretary of State Colin Powell and the Vice President / Secretary of Defense. The latter, together with a number of neoconservatives, had been advocating invasion of Iraq and aggressive use of the military. Virtually all of these advocates had never served in the military and had no experience with war. Secretary Powell, in contrast, fought in Vietnam, was a General in the Gulf War, and served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Wilkerson, his Chief of Staff at the State Department was also a senior military officer who had seen war and sent men into battle. They were much more reluctant to use military power unless the nation's vital interest demanded it. Hence, the quotation.
Many foreign armies, including troops of the United States, had surrounded Russia. Most had no specific instructions or purpose but they all wanted to protect their interests from the chaotic Russian situation as well as from each other who might use the Russian weakness to establish their foothold.
New York Times Russian correspondent was commenting on the prognosis for the Russian revolution:
Commenting on political parties in Cuba:
Lenin and his wife were wanted in Russia and carried on their revolutionary activities from England:
The Russian domination of Communist parties throughout the world, was opposed very early. In many countries there were major struggles between the pro-Russian communists and the independent communists.
The letter was widely published. There were few left wing intellectuals who would take Lenin on at the time but Gorter was one. The immediate quotation shredded a brochure that Lenin had produced for world wide communism where he was critical of other left wing movements.
While Lenin was admired for his skill by his revolutionary colleagues, many had their concerns.
Lenin, unlike Stalin was not a dictator or egomaniac, and was flexible and affable in working with others.
His hope that the elite intelligentsia would lead the nation was thwarted by Islamic fundamentalism which destroyed most of Pakistan education by only teaching religion in its Madrassas and not allowing the leadership to have compulsory education. There has been an enormous brain drain with a huge number of the Pakistani intelligentsia on which Jinnah pinned his hopes, had no opportunity in Pakistan and emigrated to the United Kingdom and America.
Chernov opposed the Bolsheviks and left Russia for Europe and the United States where he lived out his life.
Although he was a Marxist, he was also a democrat. He was one of the first leftists to criticize the Russian Revolution. The letter was widely published. There were few left wing intellectuals who would take Lenin on at the time but Gorter was one.
He was one of the first leftists to point out and condemns the Russian Stalinist imperialism. Official communist doctrine stated that only capitalist nations could be imperialists.
Sailer’s point is well taken though the accuracy of the numbers in his comparison depends on definition. If one assumes that the Hitler murders are confined to the 6 million or so Jews, Gypsies, and homosexuals then his numbers are right, But most people include the 22 million Russians killed in WWII and the other WWII deaths civilian and military and then Hitler caused deaths are much greater. However, the numbers are not critical to his point which is that under the guise of promoting equality many dictators have caused many deaths just as have the dictators who were preaching inequality. Extremism is always the problem.
Torquemada was the Spanish Catholic Priest who headed the Spanish Inquisition. He tortured and murdered thousands of people to “save their souls”.
Only 6 years after the Russian Revolution Lenin was already being perceived as an international provocateur and instigator of problems.
Lenin was amoral with respect to war and politics and assumed that his opponents were as well.
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin. For most of the world it was shocking how determined the Russians were to use terror against the counterrevolutionaries. However, after Lenin’s death, the terror used by Stalin exceeded anything in the previous 300 years.
Vladimir Lenin. This is a classic Lenninism where he argues that the basic principles of Communism solve all problems. He never explains how the abolition of private property would lead to female freedom and independence. Nor is this point argued by other Marxist advocates. It was an almost knee-jerk opportunistic reaction not unlike modern conservatives for whom lower taxes are the cure for all ills. The fact that married women were considered the private property of their husbands was amenable to much less drastic solutions than the elimination of private property. Indeed, we have simply abolished wives from the property class and left other property private.
- Born: April 22, 1870
- Died: January 21, 1924
- Nationality: Russian
- Profession: Revolutionary, Politician
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by his alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia, and later the Soviet Union, became a one-party socialist state governed by the Soviet Communist Party. A Marxist, he developed a variant of this communist ideology known as Leninism.
