Lenin Rediscovered: What Is to Be Done? In Context - Lars Lih Audiobook

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  caesar963
  October 22nd, 2022
  

  Yep, Lenin was an optimist, Stalin loved the Bolshoi…
  When will people cease valorising mass-murderers & their evil ideologies?
  They also loved a good famine, of course. As Vladimir Lenin observed, “He who does not work shall not eat” is a necessary principle under socialism.
  The phrase appears in his 1917 work, The State and Revolution. Through this slogan Lenin explains that in socialist states only productive individuals could be allowed access to the articles of consumption.

  The principle was enunciated in the Russian Constitution of 1918, & also article 12 of the 1936 Soviet Constitution.

  Lenin Rediscovered: What Is to Be Done? In Context - Lars Lih
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  code2zero
  October 22nd, 2022
  

  

  Thank you

  Lenin Rediscovered: What Is to Be Done? In Context - Lars Lih
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  ezdp
  October 22nd, 2022
  

  

  Thanks!

  Lenin Rediscovered: What Is to Be Done? In Context - Lars Lih
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  ezdp
  October 22nd, 2022
  

  

  Thank you!

  Lenin Rediscovered: What Is to Be Done? In Context - Lars Lih
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  Webby1948
  October 23rd, 2022
  

  

  The quote cited by the first commenter,
  ‘He who does not work shall not eat” is indeed, a fundamental prinicple of socialism. It is a paraphrase of a quote from the Bible, Thessalonians: “Whoever refuses to work is not allowed to eat’ .
  Pretty mean minded in the original, its meaning is subverted in Lenin’s use of it to indicate those who have all the money and influence but do not actually earn it. The financiers, the factory owners, landowners, property speculators and hundreds of other professions Lenin could not possibly have known of in 1917.He did not mean the ill or disabled, as some would love us to believe.

  Not for the first time , nor for the last, certain people on ABB exploit an upload intending to provide context and information to promote their Russophobic POV.

  Lenin Rediscovered: What Is to Be Done? In Context - Lars Lih
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  caesar963
  October 23rd, 2022
  

  False, in every respect. Lenin was consistent on this - evidenced long before 1917. Discover his vehement opposition to any aid for the victims of the Volga Famine, 1891-92. And these victims were not “those who have all the money and influence but do not actually earn it. The financiers, the factory owners, landowners, property speculators and hundreds of other professions.” They were the very poorest, and included the young, the old, the ill & the disabled. Lenin sought to weaponise their mass suffering & death.

  Another famine, the Great Famine that ravaged Russia, 1921-22 was one of the worst human disasters of the 20th century. Again, magnified by the Lenin regime’s policies and actions (& inactions), this famine left millions of Russians malnourished, starving and at risk from epidemics sweeping the country.

  And again, Stalin quoted Lenin with approval during the Soviet-planned famine, the Holodomor(*), also known as the Terror-Famine or the Great Famine (yet again), a man-made famine in Ukraine from 1932-33, that killed millions of Ukrainians.
  (This was part of a broader Soviet famine, of course, running from 1931–34.)

  Stalin declared: “He who does not work, neither shall he eat.” This perspective is argued by economic professor Michael Ellman to have influenced official policy during the planned famine, with millions expediently deemed to be “idlers” being disfavoured in aid distribution, as compared to those complicit with the regime.

  Heaven forbid that anyone should question such evil.

  (*) “Holodomor” literally translated from Ukrainian means “death by hunger,” “killing by hunger, killing by starvation,” or sometimes “murder by hunger or starvation.” It is a compound of the Ukrainian holod, ‘hunger’; and mor, ‘plague’. The expression holodom moryty means “to inflict death by hunger.” The Ukrainian verb moryty (морити) means “to poison, to drive to exhaustion, or to torment.” The perfective form of moryty is zamoryty, ‘kill or drive to death.’
  In English, the Holodomor has also been referred to as the artificial famine, famine genocide, terror famine, and terror-genocide.

  Lenin Rediscovered: What Is to Be Done? In Context - Lars Lih
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  rivatej428
  October 25th, 2022
  

  

  You kids and your silly communism fantasy. Ahh… to be young and stupid.

  Lenin Rediscovered: What Is to Be Done? In Context - Lars Lih
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  colinmatts
  October 30th, 2022
  

  rivatej428
  Should we simply not study any ideologies we don’t like? Or do you think it’s just childish to do so?

  Lenin Rediscovered: What Is to Be Done? In Context - Lars Lih
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  doctorgumby
  October 31st, 2022
  

  

  Idealist in name, realpolitik in practice. Lenin was a viscious orchestrator of machinations to propell himself. Socialism was his vehicle. Unfortunately, we have a new generation of cenceptual dilettantes who would enthuseastically repeat the failed socialist experiment. Polotics corrupts, kids. Period.

  Lenin Rediscovered: What Is to Be Done? In Context - Lars Lih
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  amin0s
  November 4th, 2022
  

  

  Lenin was a great statesman. Bourgeois criminals still fear him and the power of the unwashed masses . For good reason. There is no grater enemy of the thieves than the Communist Party.

  Lenin Rediscovered: What Is to Be Done? In Context - Lars Lih
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  caesar963
  November 11th, 2022
  

  …enemies of starving populations & opponents of genocide, yeah…

  Lenin Rediscovered: What Is to Be Done? In Context - Lars Lih
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  Scrawl
  July 24th, 2023
  

  Anybody got Late Victorian Holocausts by Mike Davis?

  Lenin Rediscovered: What Is to Be Done? In Context - Lars Lih

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