05-06-2005, 04:43 PM
kandrathe,May 6 2005, 09:07 AM Wrote:I wonder sometimes what Marx, or Lenin would have thought about Joseph Stalin's, or Pol Pot's abuse of power.
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Marx, being a philosopher, would have been appalled that the glorious cause of The Workers had been hijacked by a thugs and powermongers. Marx conceived just enough of a utopia, post the "violent revolution" that he'd be sick at the means contaminating the long term ends.
Lenin, a revolutionary and not a philosopher, woud be less disturbed thanks to his own experience in having to get something done. He was not above breaking a few eggs himself. I don't think that he would have picked Stalin as his successor, given a choice.
Occhi
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In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete