The great twentieth-century figures of communism, notably Lenin and Mao, have always been bright lights on the path ... serious loss of instruments of government over many years. The ANC needs to get ...
Vladimir Lenin in his typical blunt self emphasises this in his book, State and Revolution: "the working class must break up, smash the ‘readymade state machinery', and not confine itself merely to ...
The latter-day communists have not learned the flexibility of Lenin, the willingness to compromise. One cannot make a revolution or achieve radical transformation by following a straight line. One ...
Since the ‘revolution’ lies outside the vision of every single civil servant and even ... It is significant that it should be in a text commenting on an electoral defeat of the proletarian party while ...
In particular his theory of permanent revolution was seized on to demonstrate his ... productive forces but must immediately carry them onward… and give them a state of development such as has been ...