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A Survivor of the Cultural Revolution Reviews New Book, ‘The Devil and Communist China’ – The Stream

The Devil and Communist China indicts the murderous rule of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) with Mao Zedong at its center, reaching back to Karl Marx himself to demonstrate the demonic origin of Communism. Its author, Steven Mosher, is the whistleblower who exposed Chinas brutal One Child Policy 40 years ago.

After open flirtations with literal Satanism, Marx developed the theoretical framework for Communism. (Marxism is the theory, and Communism the practice.) This new book covers Maos life and ends with current Chinese President Xi Jinpings recent ascension to office. With ample horrific accounts, it convincingly proves that the CCP is not just a party of an earthly system, but a demonic killing machine.

I immediately saw this books value for todays America. Ours is a demonless society. We largely dont believe they exist. Many believe spiritual beings like demons have no room in our humanist society. We should waste no time on such things, they say, but give our attention to building a better future through collaboration and unconditional tolerance.

Sadly, most American churches follow the same line of reasoning. Pastors rarely talk about demons. When they do, its usually because some sections of the Scripture mention them. Jesus encountered demons and cast them out, which demonstrated His power over darkness but thats usually where the sermon ends. We see no connection between the demons in the Scripture and our circumstances. No wonder when trying to explain to my American friends about the demonic essence of Marxism and Communism, I often feel like Im hitting a brick wall.

Our countrys past dealings with the CCP also shows that weve had only a superficial knowledge of Communism, and missed its demonic nature. In the late 1940s, fooled by CCP lies and cunning, President Harry Truman and Secretary of State George S. Marshall persistently backed the CCP. At the most crucial moment, the American government stopped providing military supplies to General Chiang Kai-sheks Nationalist Army, thus saving the CCP from imminent destruction. Now, after decades of being fattened up by us, the CCP makes no attempt to hide its intentions or true nature.

The Devil and Communist China will help you develop a fresh understanding of Communism and the CCP, and realize that its adherents represent an invisible dark force whose insatiable desire is to steal, to kill, and to destroy. In light of the CCPs aggression around the world, this book will force us to redirect our line of resistance.

However, the book has its flaws, mainly in Part One where Mosher suggests the CCPs rule is merely the continuation of Chinese Legalism, practiced over the past two millennia. It leaves the impression that Chinese culture inherently promotes obedience and tolerates oppression, and this in part is the reason for the emergence and persistence of Communist rule in China.

This creates the perception that there is nothing positive in Chinese history. This sounds familiar; a teacher told my class during the Cultural Revolution that Chinese history was pitch black, and Chinese culture and civilization were evil, oppressive, and superstitious. I was told there had been nothing redemptive in China until the advent of the CCP, and Mao emerged to save the Chinese people from their abyss of suffering.

Later, after immigrating to the U.S., I learned the truth about Chinese history by reading books published outside mainland China. I found that, except for the brief rule of the Qin Dynasty (221 206 BC) when Legalism was exclusively practiced, the CCP was the most oppressive regime in Chinese history. Ironically, historians say Legalism is the very reason the Qin Dynasty was short-lived.

Though Mosher cogently articulates the characteristics of Legalism and rightly recognizes the connection between that political system and Maos rule, its quite the leap to say that Legalism has been the dominant political idea in China over the last two millennia. Throughout history, Chinas sociopolitical structure has been a mixture of different schools of thought. Though Legalism was part of it, it was significantly mitigated by opposing ideas such as Confucianism and Taoism. Mosher repeats the progressive view that American history is entirely defined by the antebellum period.

Further, in the Chinese culture, a person does not exist in isolation but always in different reciprocal relationships. In each, both people have obligations. In order for a relationship to continue, both parties have to fulfill their duties and responsibilities. For instance, while the citizens are required to obey the emperor, the emperor is bound to rule justly and mercifully.

Regrettably, Western intellectuals often overlook or misunderstand this reciprocity. They tend to focus on one party usually the lesser one, the subjects, the wife, the children. Consequently, to them, Chinese culture appears oppressive and the Chinese people seem submissive.

In Confucianism, subjects must obey the ruler as long as he rules justly. If an emperor turns out to be wicked, which indicates that he has lost his mandate from Heaven, his subjects are not to obey him. History shows that, at times, emperors publicly apologized to their subjects and promised less exhaustive labor, taxation, and military policies. Confuciuss statement, Water doesnt just support a ship, it can also capsize the ship, remains a sobering warning to authorities.

In addition, when the CCP attained power in 1949, Communism was a Western idea to most Chinese. Many, including my grandfather who had been one of Chiang Kai-sheks lieutenant generals decided to stay in China to give Communism a try instead of following Chiang to Taiwan. Many Chinese trained in universities in the west also returned to help create a new China. No one thought Communism was the continuation of the old Chinese system, let alone the worst part of it.

Though I see great value in Moshers book, its unfortunate that, in blaming Chinese culture itself as part of the reason for Communisms emergence and longevity in China, it suggest Communism is unique to China. The truth is that the supernatural darkness of Marxism and Communism can penetrate any society if we do not recognize and resist those ideologies with a vigor that matches their viciousness.

The green tents now popping up on college campuses like mushrooms after a rain demonstrate that the freest nation on Earth has not been able to keep Marxism at bay. The crisis Marxists inside our country have created is just as urgent as the threat coming from the other side of the Pacific. We must also keep an eye on our domestic Marxists and their activities, recognizing in them the demonic underpinnings detailed in Moshers book.

Ultimately, the burden of holding the line against Marxism and Communism falls on Christians. After all, its a spiritual matter, not merely an intellectual or political one. Only we can overcome this demonic ideology by the power of the Holy Spirit.

In this regard, The Devil and Communist China provides an important contribution.

Chenyuan Sniderwas raised in Communist China and majored in Chinese language and literature in college. After immigrating to the U.S. and studying at Assemblies of God Theological Seminary and Duke Divinity School, she became a professor at Christian colleges and seminary. Recently, she sensed God was leading her to use her unique voice to warn Americans about the various Marxist influences in our society. She lives in northern California with her husband and has two grown children.

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European Communist Action: Long live the 1st of May Long live socialism! – In Defense of Communism

For the workers and communist parties, the 1st of May represents a day of struggle, in remembrance of those who came before us and in honor of those who will continue the struggle.

The working people, not only in the countries of Europe, but in the entire world, have in the past years stood face to face with the inhumanity and brutality of the capitalist system, which has put the entire burden of the increasing prices on the shoulders of the working people. By simultaneously keeping wages down, the situation for the workers and other exploited strata has worsened in every country.

Through its policies, the bourgeois classes have not only achieved a significant cut in the real wages of the majority of workers, but they have succeeded in introducing more flexible forms of employment, abolishing the 8-hour day and in forcing upon the workers more and more unpaid work. The increasing pressure is not only felt in the workplaces, but in all spheres of life, where the commercialization of health, education and social security are all adding to the weight that the working people must carry.

Through its policies directed against small farmers, the bourgeois classes have further intensified the centralization and concentration of agriculture in the hands of a few, forcing small farmers out of business. It has produced hundreds of thousands of new impoverished pensioners, whose meager monthly earnings often do not cover the necessities of life.

But hope lies in the struggle, which the working people have shown. Where oppression and brutality has intensified, so has resistance. All over Europe, workers have striked and struggled to prevent capital from lowering their wages, in some cases winning victories and being able to defend earlier achievements; all over Europe, farmers have protested the impossible conditions under which they have been forced to work and live. In a difficult situation, where the strength of the bourgeois classes is evident, it is necessary to show a coordinated response to state, government and employer repression.

By class solidarity, by linking the different struggles, it is possible to counter the attacks of the bourgeoisie. It is not only possible to struggle for an increase in wages and pensions, for collective labor agreements, for a lowering of the retirement age and for unemployment benefits, but it is also possible to win.

At the same time as and in conjunction with the sharpening of the class struggle within each country, we observe a sharpening in the struggle within the imperialist system, and the more fierce struggle of every bourgeois class to expand the operations of its monopolies and companies. In this context, we highlight the necessity of the working people to struggle against this development, to oppose the policies of the EU and NATO and to reject them. The development finds expression in the increasing militarisation in every country, and in the regional wars and conflicts that arise, from the brutal terror unleashed on the Palestinian people to the prolonged imperialist war in the Ukraine.

Faced with the terror of capitalism, and its constant attacks on the peoples of the world, we declare that as it is, it cannot continue - the future under capitalism can hold nothing more than further impoverishment, humiliation and insecurity, and we stress the need for a revolutionary overthrow of capitalist exploitation by the development of the class struggle, and the struggle of the working people for the building of a new, socialist society, characterized by workers power.

We, the workers and communist parties of the European Communist Action send militant greetings to the struggling workers of the world, and we reaffirm our commitment to lead the struggle of the working people to its conclusion, to socialism.

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Florida children to learn that communism is evil, slavery a skills training program – The South Florida Times

A new Florida law requires public schools to teach students in kindergarten through 12th grade age-appropriate and developmentally appropriate lessons on communism. The Florida Department of Education will develop lessons which, as The Miami Herald noted, will focus on the history of communism, the increasing threat of communism in the United States and the atrocities committed in foreign countries under the guidance of communism.

A mandatory topic for the lessons, starting in the 2026-2027 school year, will be [t]he increasing threat of communism in the United States and to our allies through the 20th century, along with the economic, industrial and political events that have preceded and anticipated communist revolutions.

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the bill during a mid-April visit to the Hialeah Gardens Museum coinciding with the 63rd anniversary of the failed 1961 CIA-directed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. My view is we might as well give them the truth when they are in our schools because a lot of these universities will tell them how great communism is, so we are setting the proper foundation, DeSantis said as he stood at a podium displaying a sign, ANTICOMMUNST EDUCATION, The Herald reported. We are committed to telling the truth about this ideology and we are going to make sure that people have a very accurate understanding of the human carnage that has resulted from communist regimes throughout history.

An Institute for Freedom in the Americas will be established at Miami Dade College, based at its Freedom Tower in downtown Miami, to preserve the ideals of a free society and promote democracy in the Americas. The institute will sponsor workshops, symposiums and conferences in partnership with Florida International Universitys Adam Smith Center for Economic Freedom. A history of communism museum is also proposed.

It will not be the rst opportunity for Florida students to learn about communism. As USA Today Network noted, they currently can receive lessons on communism in high-school social studies courses or in a seventh-grade civics and government course. Also, a high-school government class required for graduation includes 45 minutes of instruction on Victims of Communism Day and covers communist regimes through history.

It should be a surprise that, according to USA Today Network, the bill had bipartisan legislative support, with only seven Democrats in the House and Senate opposed. But the legislation is obviously directed at the states Cuban American population, estimated at two million or around 70 percent of the total nationally. They have been decisive in elections and vote mostly Republican. Democrats who supported the bill evidently hoped to cut into that support.

So it is merely pandering because there is no chance that communists will take over the United States. A rightwing dictatorship is much more likely and that is what should be taught in schools. Membership in the Communist Party of the United States is estimated at around 5,000 compared to 100,000 at a 1940s peak while millions harbor anti-democratic sentiment, stoked by former President Donald Trump. If, as DeSantis said, universities will brainwash students on how great communism is, they are doing a bad.

It is no coincidence that, like several others which the Legislature passed and DeSantis signed, the anti-communism bill was apparently inspired by an outside source. Heritage Foundation president Kevin D. Roberts interviewed talk-show host Jesse Kelly on the topic on his radio show, focusing on Kellys book The Anti-Communist Manifesto. The introduction, according to the transcript, claims: Hiding behind a veil of progressivism, todays communists have inltrated many of the institutions that Americans cherish and use their newfound power to control and regulate the actions of everyday Americans. Really?

In fact, this is just a return to U.S. Sen, Joseph McCarthys Red Scare campaign against communists in the early 1950s by todays Republican Party and Trump. The former president lumps communists with Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the connes of our country Florida lawmakers and the governor are, as usual, just falling in line.

DeSantis did not mention that there are only ve communist-governed countries today China, Cuba, Laos, Vietnam and North Korea compared to the dozens during the existence of the Soviet Union. And while he talked about the human carnage that has resulted from communist regimes throughout history, communism as an ideology originated in 1848 with the publication of the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederich Engels and the Soviet Union declared itself a socialist state in 1922. There was a whole lot of history before that.

The anti-communist bill provides a stark contrast with how state policy deals with the more than 3.6 million African Americans who comprise nearly 16 percent of the population. The lawmakers and the governor have enacted laws that are downright unfriendly to them. They have limited discussion of race in schools and maintain that slavery was a skills-training program, even though it, too, produced a human carnage. They banned critical race theory (CRT) from classrooms where it never existed. CRT is a highly technical academic argument, usually in law schools, which insists that racial discrimination is baked into the American system. DeSantis has claimed that it teaches children to hate this country or to hate each other." Also barred are programs that seek to address that very racial inequality which he says does not exist. Those include diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and, in the case of businesses, environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives.

This, and more, has been happening partly because the Democratic Party, to which a majority of African Americans belong, seems unable to compete with Republicans. That failure has been worsened by Republican political sleight-of-hand and gerrymandering.

The result has been, as the Daytona Beach News-Journal reported last year, that while Republicans comprise 36 percent of voters, they are 71 percent of state lawmakers. More than 60 percent of the members of the Florida House of Representatives and 70 percent of the Senate are European Americans; African Americans are 18.3

percent and 17.5 percent, respectively. Few African Americans hold key executive positions; the notable exception is the surgeon-general, Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo, whose claim to fame is his willingness to blindly support DeSantis, who appointed him, in rejecting health science.

This lack of representation has produced signicant consequences for African Americans. The Florida Department of Health reported that, from 2018 to 2020, the death rate from heart disease for those aged 35 or older was 338 per 1,000 18.6 percent higher than the 285 for European Americans. The stroke death rate was 120 per 1,000, or 58 percent higher than that for European Americans, at 76. Infant mortality rate in 2007 was 13.36 and 5.18, per 1,000, respectively.

U.S. Census data put the average African American household income at $48,998 30 percent less than for European Americans. The National Association of Realtors reported that 49 percent of African Americans owned their homes, compared to 75 percent of European Americans. African American enrollment in public universities declined by 12.2 percent between 2010 and 2022; that could drop further because of the hostile environment which has been created.

But there is one area in which African Americans surpass European Americans. Though they are 17 percent of Floridas population, they comprise more than 47 percent of state prisoners.

State lawmakers answer was to declare war on a non-existent communist threat, while ignoring the fact that Florida was a slave state, with the enslaved working on cotton and sugar plantations, and that European American terrorists destroyed entire African American communities. But no study or institute has been mandated to explore that history and its consequences. If African Americans hunger for such education, they can always turn to the churches, such as Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church in Melbourne which began offering Conscious Reality Teaching classes.

The Rev. L. Ronald Durham, pastor of the Volusia County Democratic Black Caucus, told Florida Today in November, Unless the Legislature comes to its senses and realizes how much damage is being caused by their openly hostile bills targeting minorities and women, we are heading toward a society that has the potential to implode, causing untold psychological repercussions that will take years to overcome.

Should that happen, of course it will be blamed on communists.

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Pol Pot’s Atrocities Still Matter, 45 Years After Khmer Rouge’s Fall – Reason

Forty-five years ago last Sunday, Vietnamese troops seizedPhnom Penh and ended Cambodia's 45-month reign of terror known as the "killing fields." Under the leadership of Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge government implemented policiesforced labor, resettlements, torture, starvationthat led to the death of 1.7-to-3 million people, or at least 20 percent of the nation's population. The regime destroyed the country, caused untold suffering, and left permanent scars.

Painful as it is, we should not let these grimanniversariesgo unremembered. For context, imagine a "political experiment" that obliterated our society and left a quarter of our 331-million population dead. It's inconceivable. As the son of a Nazi concentration camp survivor and grandson of peasants who fled Russian pogroms, I've always been fascinated by a simple question: What are the conditions that lead to such horrors?

The obvious answer is these horrors always are rooted in ideas, typically radical ones that try to implement some utopian vision. They typically are the work of governments. Large swaths of the population take partsome willingly, others by force. The Cambodian revolution wasn't spontaneous. Its leaders honed their philosophy while studying in Paris. And one usually finds intellectuals behind crazy notions. As the sayinggoes, "Ideas have consequences"and they're often tragic.

Cambodia's leaders sought to create an idyllic and classless agrarian society, one that harkened to the Angkor Empire from the 800s. "They wanted all members of society to be rural agricultural workers rather than educated city dwellers, who the Khmer Rouge believed had been corrupted by western capitalist ideas," according to theHolocaust Memorial Day Trust. Their philosophy echoed Mao Zedong, whose efforts to remake China led to unimaginable horrors.

For half of my life, the Cold War and the threat of communism was an ever-present feature. Time moves on, so it's no surprise that fewer Americans remember the widespread fear that totalitarianism might dominate. Communist regimes at one point controlled 30 percent of the world's population. Despite this history, a shocking 2019 poll found more than a third of U.S. millennials approve of communism, with only 57 percent preferring the Declaration of Independence to the Communist Manifesto, according to a reportin the Independent.

In 1999, the"Black Book of Communism"tried to detail the number of civilian deaths caused by the world's communist regimesnot deaths caused amid wars and civil strife, but direct massacres from the kind of policies so efficiently carried out in Cambodia. The authors came up with a figure of 100 million. These deaths don't tell the entire story of fear, slavery, and repression. It's simply unfathomable that any modern American could have a view of communist regimes that were any more favorable than the views most of us hold of Nazism.

Then again, ideological narratives grab hold of people in ways that are hard to understand. So many young leftists are nurtured in a university hothouse that divvies up humanity into fixedgroups of "oppressor" and "oppressed." They learned to have an endless faith in the government's ability to reorder humanity. They probably haven't been taught about what happens when officials are given unlimited powers to launch a "Great Leap Forward," create "Year Zero" or design a "New Soviet Man."

That's too bad because the reason we live such free and prosperous lives is because we live within a system that limits the government's power to take our property, throw us in prison, depopulate cities, execute us, force us onto long marches and put us in re-education camps. History proves that many peopleincluding those who claim to have the best intentionswould do horrific things if they had such powers at their disposal. We can even point to horrorsin the history of our own country, of course.

What lessons can modern Americans draw from the Cambodian nightmare? I'd suggest we show no tolerance toward grandiose social experiments of any kind (such as radicallyreorderingsociety to avert a supposed climate doom) and focus instead on incrementally improving life within our current system. People get excited about big, transformative ideas even though they can upend society, yet lose interest in the nuts-and-bolts of the slow-moving democratic process. The latter can be hard work, so no wonder political radicals prefer dangerous shortcuts.

Back in Cambodia, the devastation from the 1970s still permeates the nation's politics. After Pol Pot was deposed, the country fell into a civil war that lasted until the 1990s, with an apparently unrepentant Pol Pot finallydyingin exile 1998. As Timereports, many former Khmer Rouge officials remain in power and the country "still grapples with Pol Pot's brutal legacy." Cambodia's population is young, so few remember the horrorsbut it still casts a pall over everything.

For the rest of us, all we can do is remember, or as authorElie Wieselsaid: "For the dead and the living, we must bear witness."

This column was first published in The Orange County Register.

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Lenin lives! Join the communists to celebrate his life and ideas! – Socialist Appeal

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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was described by John Reed author of Ten Days that Shook the World, an eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution as the most loved and most hated person alive. And this remains the case even a century since his death.

Lenin was loved by hundreds of millions of people who wanted to change society. But he was hated by the ruling class and their apologists.

The reason for this hatred is because Lenin was successful. In October 1917, for the first time in history, the working class took power and held it. They showed that they could run society without the help of bosses and bankers.

This was all possible because the working class had a leadership in the Bolshevik Party that was able to guide the revolution to success.

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Lenin once said that capitalism is horror without end. Capitalism today offers us nothing but poverty, suffering and war. For that reason, the campaign of slander against Lenin continues. Workers and young people cant be allowed to think that a better future is possible. And so the name of Lenin and the Bolsheviks has to be smeared with all kinds of lies.

We think the time has come to set the record straight. The International Marxist Tendency is therefore launching a campaign to celebrate the life, works, and legacy of this great revolutionary.

Far from being old and outdated, Lenins ideas are more relevant than ever. They provide an invaluable tool in the hands of revolutionaries today.

As Lenin once said: Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement. It is up to revolutionaries of today to study the works of Lenin, and to build a revolutionary party along the lines of the Bolsheviks, in order to bring about a successful struggle for communism.

We call on all our supporters to not only attend this #Lenin100 meeting, but to help us spread it far and wide. Invite your friends, family and colleagues. And help us reach an even wider audience by sharing the event on social media.

Lenin may have died 100 years ago, but his ideas live on today. In the words of the Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky: Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin is to live forever!

Our Lenin lives! event will take place in London, at Hanover Primary School Sports Hall, N1 8BD. It will also be streamed live on our YouTube channel. You can buy tickets to the in-person event here.

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For those wanting to understand the person of Lenin, it is imperative to read him for themselves. With 45 volumes of collected works (in English), however, this is a significant challenge really the work of a lifetime.

Wellred Books upcoming biography of Lenin, In Defence of Lenin, provides an accessible overview, in this respect, presenting his ideas and their relevance for a new generation of revolutionaries.

The beauty of the book is that it is suitable for both the beginner and more advanced student of the history of Bolshevism. Someone completely fresh on their journey into Marxism has in their hands an extensive compendium of the figure of Lenin and his ideas, which have been subjected to so much distortion and calumny.

But even for comrades familiar with titles such as Lenin and Trotsky: What they really stood for, or who have already listened to the Bolshevism audiobook on their commute to work, this new publication will still offer many inspiring insights, painting a vivid portrait of a true revolutionary.

The first few chapters, for example, are of a more personal nature, containing facts about Lenins upbringing that few of us would previously have been familiar with. These are not just nice to know, but are crucial for setting the scene for the later sections on Lenins political development and radicalisation.

In Defence of Lenin is spread over two volumes, and spans over a thousand pages, setting the necessary context for various key events: the launch of Iskra; the various debates in the early Russian workers movement; the split in 1903; and the 1905 revolution in Lenins words, the dress rehearsal for the October Revolution in 1917.

Events such as the period of reaction before the First World War, and the war itself, aptly illustrate the importance Lenin attached to defending the banner of Marxism against all kinds of revisionism. This was a period where Lenin was extremely isolated, and often in a minority in his own party.

Chapter 20 on Lenins Response from Exile, with extensive quotations from his Letters from Afar, is a particularly effective transition to the fresh winds of revolution that had started blowing by this time.

Lenins essential role is unquestionable. Without his ideological rearming of the party which at times was bending to pressures, and was being swept along helplessly by events there would have been no October Revolution.

Volume one clearly shows how the road to creating the Bolshevik Party did not proceed in a straight line. It was a hard path, full of difficulties, setbacks, and frustrations.

Volume two, which deals with the October Revolution itself, and its aftermath, continues this theme. From the very start, it was a full on fight for survival for the nascent Soviet republic.

The authors, Alan Woods and Rob Sewell, deal with the various achievements of the revolution. But they dont shy away from the very real difficulties posed by the material and cultural backwardness of the early workers state, not to mention the brutal civil war and famine that stalked the land.

This sort of honesty is merely a continuation of the thoroughly honest approach that Lenin himself time and again adopted. His method was always to say what is; to tell the truth.

In fact, here is another aspect that permeates In Defence of Lenin: a demonstration of how thoroughly human he was. Lenin had a real sense of humour and personal warmth.

As the authors say in the introduction, all those who ever met Lenin were struck, not only by his intellect, but also by his great sense of humour an aspect which his detractors wish to eradicate or ignore. They make no mention of this for the simple reason that a sense of humour doesnt quite fit with the narrative of a bloodthirsty dictator.

The appendix Krupskaya on Lenin only reinforces this human side. Here, Lenins lifelong partner and comrade-in-arms amongst other things delves into Lenins meticulous methods; how he wrote for the masses; his literary tastes; the influence the old revolutionary Chernyshevsky had on Lenins development; and last but not least, how Lenin studied Marx.

Above all, however, In Defence of Lenin is a treasure trove of ideas which revolutionaries today can dig into. Like the first four congresses of the Communist International, dealt with in a separate chapter, this should serve as a veritable school of communism.

So dont hesitate pre-order your copy now!

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