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Quotes About Leninist

I'm a Leninist. Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that's my goal, too.
~ Steve Bannon
Stalin's whole mode of being in the world militated against the renunciation of the idea of a new revolutionary period. The perspective of an ever-diminishing internal class struggle as the right way to socialism was totally alien to his makeup. Fighting, struggle and conquest were what he lived for as a Marxist and a Leninist. Socialism had always meant to him a gospel of class war and it still did, whatever Lenin might have said toward the end about civil peace and reformism.
~ Robert C. Tucker
He spent the next three weeks in the Siberian centers of Novosibirsk, Barnaul, Rubtsovsk, and Omsk conferring with local party and government officials and dictating the line they were to follow. Here at last he found an opportunity to practice the "Leninist hardness" that he had foreseen would be necessary in the revolutionary process of building Soviet socialism.
~ Robert C. Tucker
The reasons for the failure of the Leninist economic model have been studied thoroughly and in the case of North Korea they were essentially the same as elsewhere: distorted price information, lack of incentives for innovation and quality improvement, and an ingrained inability to handle data efficiently.
~ Andrei Lankov
This result was very convenient for Marxist–Leninist dialectical materialism
~ Stephen Hawking
member parties were ordered to organize along Leninist lines to combat "petit-bourgeois deviation
~ Stephen Kotkin
I´m a Marxist, all right, Groucho tendency, and a Leninist, Lennon tendency
~ Fernando Arrabal
The essence of perestroika lies in the fact that it unites socialism with democracy and revives the Leninist concept of socialist construction both in theory and in practice.
~ Mikhail Gorbachev