--- Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote: I am inclined to believe that Lenin and Co were NOT Marxist in any true sense - they were Russian modernizers who selectively used Marx as building block of their managerial ideology (i.e. a set of myths justifying the powers and policies of top executive officers in an organization) - other elements being peasant populism and Russian nationalism.
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I ditto Woj, with a qualifier upon the term "Russian" in "Russian nationalism." Lenin didn't have a drop of Russian blood in him, Stalin was Georgian, Trotsky was a Jew, etc.
Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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