http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/lenin/ en-us Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:16:10 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416351/posts A public art installation depicting Russian Communist leader Vladimir Lenin and a feminized Chairman Mao Zedong in the heart of Richmond's business district has the whole town talking. “When I went to the gym at 5:30 this morning it’s all people were talking about,” said Richmond city Coun. Derek Dang, who saw the piece for the first time Wednesday. “People just can’t believe it.” The large stainless steel sculpture is part of the Vancouver Biennale, a city-wide celebration of public art. The piece — Miss Mao Trying to Poise Herself at the Top of Lenin’s Head — was created by... Canwest News Service via The Times Colonist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416351/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:16:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382290/posts Helen Rappaport, an acclaimed historian and author, said that books, papers and journals charting Lenin’s last years show that he contracted the sexually transmitted disease and that it ultimately claimed his life. She said Lenin showed many symptoms of syphilis and that many among the Soviet hierarchy believed he had it. But they were banned from speaking in public and threatened with death because of the embarrassment it would cause. Instead, official documents show that his death was attributed to declining health following three stokes and an assassination attempt in 1918. Central to Miss Rappaport’s case was a report written... The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382290/posts#comment Mon, 9 Nov 2009 18:50:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376491/posts Recently, I was at a boomer backyard barbecue in Boston.The males had Ivy League degrees and high incomes evident in subtle ways. The wives who were white had the perfect cheekbones and teeth that only generations of breeding and expensive maintenance can produce. The nonwhite wives had PhD’s instead. The host in a Yes We Can T-shirt sneezed. “Barack you!” said a preppie-looking man, and explained with a broad smile that it’s a new locution replacing “Bless you.” I walked up to the Obamapod and said, “I like your barackhlo line.” “It’s Barack you,” he said, with the typical linguistic... The Brussels Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376491/posts#comment Mon, 2 Nov 2009 14:32:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2370954/posts If you define "socialist" as advocating government ownership of the "means of production," which is what I've always understood socialist to mean, then, no, modern leftists (or progressives or whatever they want to be called) no longer believe that, right now at least, widespread government ownership of economic enterprises is a good strategy. As a sketch of that now-obsolete view of socialism, consider Lenin in State and Revolution: "The development of capitalism ... creates the preconditions that enable really "all" to take part in the administration of the state. Some of these preconditions are: universal literacy, which has already been... The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2370954/posts#comment Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:38:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2369310/posts Historians have long agreed that Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin suffered a series of three strokes that eventually led to his death. But new evidence has been uncovered that appears to show Lenin actually succumbed to the sexually transmitted disease, syphilis. The Soviets made huge attempts to cover up the real reasons for Lenin's erratic behaviour and sudden bouts of rage in the years leading up to his death in 1924... Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2369310/posts#comment Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:08:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363480/posts Lately there's has been an anti-Wall Street sentiment, propagated by the media that has become exacerbated as the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) hit 10,000 Oct. 14. On CNBC's Oct. 15 "Street Signs," Jim Cramer, host of "Mad Money," was asked by fill-in host Melissa Francis what he thought about the outrage over Wall Street hitting its stride, while unemployment continues to rise. "What did you think about [Morgan Stanley CEO] John Mack's answer to the big question of the day, which is the divergence between Main Street and Wall Street?" Francis asked. "We see Dow 10,000 - bonuses are... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363480/posts#comment Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:52:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2347217/posts Written in July, 1916 At last there has appeared in Germany, illegally, without any adaptation to the despicable Junker censorship, a Social-Democratic pamphlet dealing with questions of the war! The author, who evidently belongs to the “Left-radical” wing of the Party, signs himself Junius[3] (which in Latin means junior) and gave his pamphlet the title: The Crisis of Social-Democracy. Appended are the “Theses on the Tasks of International Social-Democracy,” which have already been submitted to the Berne I.S.C. (International Socialist Committee) and published in No. 3 of its Bulletin; the theses were drafted by the “International” group, which in the... MSG http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2347217/posts#comment Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:16:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2346601/posts Written June of 1916 We must now try to sum up, to draw together the threads of what has been said above on the subject of imperialism. Imperialism emerged as the development and direct continuation of the fundamental characteristics of capitalism in general. But capitalism only became capitalist imperialism at a definite and very high stage of its development, when certain of its fundamental characteristics began to change into their opposites, when the features of the epoch of transition from capitalism to a higher social and economic system had taken shape and revealed themselves in all spheres. Economically, the main... Mainestategop http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2346601/posts#comment Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:16:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2346590/posts That was how Sotsial-Demokrat posed the alternative with regard to the German Social-Democratic Party, back in its issue No. 35[1] , when it elaborated the fundamental ideas of the Manifesto on war issued by our Party’s Central Committee.[2] Notice how the facts bear out this conclusion. The German Social-Democratic Party is clearly disintegrating. Otto Ruhle, Karl Liebknecht’s closest associate, quite apart from the I.S.D. group (International Socialists of Germany),[3] which has been consistently fighting the hypocritical Kautskyites, has openly come out for a split. Vorwarts had no serious, honest answer. There are actually two workers’ parties in Germany. Even in... MSG http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2346590/posts#comment Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:00:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2345535/posts Written in English before November 9 1915 Dear Comrades! We are extremely glad to get your leaflet. Your appeal to the members of the Socialist Party to struggle for a new International, for clear-cut revolutionary socialism as taught by Marx and Engels, and against the opportunism, especially against those who are in favor of working class participation in a war of defence, corresponds fully with the position our party (Social-Democratic Labor Party of Russia, Central Committee) has taken from the beginning of this war and has always taken during more than ten years. We send you our sincerest greetings &... Mainestategop http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2345535/posts#comment Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:00:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2345531/posts Pravdy No. 35, March 13, 1914. Capitalism cannot be at a standstill for a single moment. It must forever be moving forward. Competition, which is keenest in a period of crisis like the present, calls for the invention of an increasing number of new devices to reduce the cost of production. But the domination of capital converts all these devices into instruments for the further exploitation of the workers. The Taylor system is one of these devices. Advocates of this system recently used the following techniques in America. An electric lamp was attached to a worker’s arm, the worker’s movements... Mainestategop http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2345531/posts#comment Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:57:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2344799/posts Liberal Professor Mr. Tugan-Baranovsky is on the war path against socialism. This time he has approached the question, not from the political and economic angle, but from that of an abstract discussion on equality (perhaps the professor thought such an abstract discussion more suitable for the religious and philosophical gatherings which he has addressed?). "If we take socialism, not as an economic theory, but as a living ideal," Mr. Tugan declared, "then, undoubtedly, it is associated with the ideal of equality, but equality is a concept . . . that cannot be deduced from experience and reason." This is the... Mainestategop http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2344799/posts#comment Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:18:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2344798/posts Published: Proletarskaya Pravda No. 19, January 1, 1914 This is the battle-cry of the class-conscious American workers. They say: We have only one political question be fore us, and that is the question of the workers’ earnings and their working day. To Russian workers it may at first sight seem very strange and puzzling to have all social and political questions reduced to a single one. But in the United States of America, the most advanced country in the world, which has almost complete political liberty, where democratic institutions are most developed, and where tremendous progress has been made in... Mainestategop http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2344798/posts#comment Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:17:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2344796/posts Novy Ekonomist (No. 21 for 1913), a journal published by Mr. P. Migulin, with the Octobrists and Cadets jointly collaborating, carries an interesting note about income tax in the United States. The bill exempts from taxation all incomes up to 4,000 dollars (8,000 rubles). Taxation is envisaged at the rate of one per cent on all incomes exceeding 4,000 dollars, two per cent on all incomes exceeding 20,000 dollars and so on, with slight increases in the percentage as incomes increase. Thus the plan is for a progressive income tax, but with an exceedingly slow rate of progression, so that... Mainestategop http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2344796/posts#comment Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:13:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2343673/posts From a speech in March of 1918(Lenin’s appearance was greeted with a prolonged standing ovation. The “Internationale” was sung.) In his speech Lenin, in a clear and popular form, explained the essential features and basic points of the Soviet Constitution. The Soviets were the highest form of democratic government by the people. The Soviets were not something invented out of one’s head, they were the product of living reality. They appeared and developed for the first time in history in our backward country, but objectively they should become the form of government by the working people all over the world.... Mainestategop http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2343673/posts#comment Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:33:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2342862/posts First published in 1930 in the second and third editions of V. I. Lenin’s Collected Works, Vol. XVI. Published according to the manuscript. Our Ministry of Public (forgive the expression) “Education” boasts inordinately of the particularly rapid growth of its expenditure. In the explanatory note to the 1913 budget by the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance we find a summary of the estimates of the Ministry of Public (so-called) Education for the post-revolutionary years. These estimates have increased from 46,000,000 rubles in 1907 to 137,000,000 in 1913. A tremendous growth—almost trebled in something like six years! But our... Mainestategop http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2342862/posts#comment Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:54:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2342859/posts From a Pravda No. 21, March 26, 1913 The question of the “oil hunger”, the inordinate increase in the price of oil and the criminal conspiracy of the oil magnates for the purpose of fleecing the consumer, has aroused quite legitimate interest and quite understandable indignation in the Duma, and to a still greater degree out side the Duma. The duel between the Minister of Commerce and Industry, who in a faintly disguised form defended the oil kings of the syndicate, and Mr. Markov the Second, who furiously and ardently expressed the hurt feelings of the noble feudal landowners—this duel... Mainestategop http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2342859/posts#comment Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:52:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2332560/posts In the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, I was taught to believe individual pursuits are selfish and sacrificing for the collective good is noble.In kindergarten we sang songs about Lenin, the leader of the Socialist Revolution. In school we learned about the beautiful socialist system, where everybody is equal and everything is fair; about ugly capitalism, where people are exploited and treat each other like wolves in the wilderness. Life in the USSR modeled the socialist ideal. God-based religion was suppressed and replaced with cultlike adoration for political figures. The government-assigned salary of the proletariat (blue-collar worker) was 30%-50% higher... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2332560/posts#comment Sat, 5 Sep 2009 00:33:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2331541/posts A picture of a young Adolf Hitler apparently playing chess against Vladimir Lenin 100 years ago has come to light. The image is said to have been created in Vienna by Hitler's art teacher, Emma Lowenstramm, and is signed on the reverse by the two dictators. Hitler was a jobbing artist in the city in 1909 and Lenin was in exile and the house where they allegedly played the game belonged to a prominent Jewish family. In the run-up to the Second World War the Jewish family fled and gave many of their possessions, including the etching and chess set,... telegraph.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2331541/posts#comment Thu, 3 Sep 2009 21:32:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2328498/posts We know that the great Chinese Republic, established at the cost of such sacrifice by progressive democrats among the Asian masses, recently encountered very grave financial difficulties. The six “Great” Powers, which are considered civilised nations, but which in reality follow the most reactionary policies, formed a financial consortium which suspended the granting of a loan to China. The point is that the Chinese revolution did not evoke among the European bourgeoisie any enthusiasm for freedom and democracy—only the proletariat can entertain that feeling, which is alien to the knights of profit; it gave rise to the urge to plunder... Mainestategop http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2328498/posts#comment Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:44:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2327849/posts The parallels between Barack Hussein Obama and Vladimir Ilyich Lenin are intriguing. To be sure, there are differences: Barack Obama is not the absolute ruler of a tyrannical state. Lenin was. We are not about to see a violent Bolshevik coup like Lenin's. (At least, I'm fairly sure.) America in 2009 is not Russia in 1917. So we won't equate them. And yet, without losing sight of those facts, the similarities are too strong for mere coincidence. So I'm going to make up the word "Leninoid," as a reminder that Obama isn't Lenin  -- but he must have hired the... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2327849/posts#comment Sun, 30 Aug 2009 07:34:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2325406/posts Here is video from California Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy holding a Town Hall Meeting in Bakersfield where he was asked why the Congress was allowing President Obama to create all the "Czars" he is creating. Just before he answered there were shouts from the audience of "He's a communist!" McCarthy answered the question by saying he did not believe Obama had the right to appoint these "Czars" AND give them powers that encroach on the "Checks and Balances" the Constitution requires. . . . . (Watch Video) Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2325406/posts#comment Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:16:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2324715/posts The Minister of Finance, in his explanatory note on the Budget, and all the government parties assure themselves and others that our Budget is firmly based. They refer, among other things, to the “achievements” of industry, which indubitably has been on the upgrade in the last few years. Our industry, as well as our entire national economy, has been developing along capitalist lines. That is indisputable, and needs no proof. But anyone who limits himself to data on “development” and to the smugly boastful statement that “there is an increase of so-and-so many per cent” shuts his eyes to Russia’s... Mainestategop http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2324715/posts#comment Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:04:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2323144/posts U.S. capitalism is ahead of all. The greatest development of technology and the most rapid progress are facts which make old Europe emulate the Yankees. But it is not the democratic institutions that the European bourgeoisie is borrowing from America, nor political liberty, nor yet the republican political system, but the latest methods of exploiting the workers. The most widely discussed topic today in Europe, and to some extent in Russia, is the “system” of the American engineer, Frederick Taylor. Not so long ago Mr. Semyonov read a paper on this system in the assembly hall of the Railway Engineering... Mainstategop http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2323144/posts#comment Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:22:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2323143/posts What a strange comparison, the reader may think. How can a race be compared with a nation? It is a permissible comparison. The Negroes were the last to be freed from slavery, and they still bear, more than anyone else, the cruel marks of slavery—even in advanced countries—for capitalism has no “room” for other than legal emancipation, and even the latter it curtails in every possible way. With regard to the Russians, history has it that they were “almost” freed from serf bondage in 1861. It was about the same time, following the civil war against the American slaveowners, that... Mainestategop http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2323143/posts#comment Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:20:55 GMT