It is said that Lenin adopted Marx’s economic theories and
ignored his other theories on political freedoms. He founded a cult of (German)
statism that resonates to our day. Opportunists spawned by his ideas
and willing followers have developed a renewed grip on public debate and gained
entry into parliaments in Ireland,Holland and Greece.
Some interesting points about Lenin…
(8/11/2019)
(Two Steps Backward, One Step Forward is firstly a brilliant guide to political manoeuvring for a political party in a serious crisis.)
5/6/2012
Lenin did not apparently favour abortion describing it as “a
pity” but calling for freedom of medical propaganda in a screed for a Russian
Marxist paper in 1913 in the context of the Stockholm Conference on
prostitution.(Eventually Stalin with Trotsky's approval put him and all his meetings and writings under a medical commission and provisional embargo from 1922 to April 1924.A spider caught in its own web.)
Lenin characterised Lutheran religious in Germany as
child molesters in the early years of the 20th century in direct contrast to the Irish and Anglo-Saxon contemporary catcalling about our wonderful,devoted if somewhat overly censorious ( but,in the end,thoroughly correct,thoroughly wise,upright,balanced) Catholic clergy who do a lot more than "hatchings,matchings and dispatchings"
These points are discovered by a thorough reading of Lenin's Collected
Works, now a collector’s item.
Malinowski was an agent provocateur within the Bolshevik
movement who was outed in 1913 to 1914. Lenin sympathetically portrayed all the
endeavours of Malinowski in the Marxist revolutionary movement stating that he
“brought thousands,if not tens of thousands, to Social Democracy”.
In 1919 Lenin had Patriarch Alexei murdered after taking him
hostage in retaliation for the killing of rebels in Baku,Azerbaijan
by the encroaching Tsarist forces. Thereby he opened the door to
de-Christianisation.He ordered the murder of the Romanov family to prevent them
becoming a figure-head for
restorationists although this was denied before 1992,and Sverdlovsk was wrongly blamed.
The Bolshevik revolution is claimed to have cost
just two thousand lives. Modern estimates put the number of war dead, deportees
and civilians who were arbitrarily murdered at fifty five millions.
The most interesting document which I read which confronts
the prejudices of the Trotskyites of the Cliff-Gluckstein school is The Immediate Tasks Of The Soviet Government from April 1919. In this pamphlet Lenin said
that the revised plan of state capitalism was “a big improvement on what we
have now” namely nationalised trusts in each industrial sector. In this
document he also declared that "The dictatorship of the proletariat can be
manifested in the dictatorship of one man."He thereby opened the door to the
development of authoritarianism. This is ignored by contemporary extremists.
In his writings concerning the New Economic Policy, Lenin
stated that a non party engineer should be paid sixteen times the wages of a
skilled, competent worker in industry. Today the search for “specialists” in
the Big Bad West yields a differential of 2:1.After upping the ante with false and misleading claims in 1913 that an unemployed worker should be given the same income as an industrial worker,Lenin left the unemployed to starve in 1919.
It should be noted that before the democratic claims of
Marxism were dispatched by Lenin that in the last free election before 1990 the
Bolsheviks gained only one quarter of the vote in elections to the Constituent
Assembly.
Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky-all ravenous wolves disguised as
sheep!
02/08/13 and 25/11/13.16/1/2016
Some notes on Lenin.
He excorciated the grisettes and parodied young teenage girls as"today a blond,tomorrow a brunette" but cosied up to Alexandra
Kollontai who was in favour of abortion.Stalin banned abortion in 1935 (while Trotsky railed against this measure ,The Revolution Betrayed ,1935).Abortionism was leading to the destruction of three in four foetuses in 1935 (Communism,Catholic Truth Society, 1948, London).
Lenin had many offhand quotes such as “What you must do, do
quickly”.This is,on the contrary, the
opposite of what one should do and indicates that he could not cope with the
police and criminal Panikmache in which he found himself in Belgium in 1901-3 and 1913 and in Austrian Galicia in 1915. It led to his
precipitous nature and lack of judgement which was largely responsible for his crashing the Russian economy in 1918 in a carambouillage of theory, confusion, hectoring, speechifying without cogency about Guchkov and mass starvation ensued. Lenin failed to slow down and mentally pause and retrace his steps to the Volunteer Squadrons and Workers and Peasants Army. Instead he let loose Trotsky with his wild,irate plans to attack Germany and subdue Poland (Churchill, Great Contemporaries, Folio Society, 2015,London). It should be noted that Trotsky in 1939 egged on his nemesis, Stalin to divide Poland in the insane belief that it would initiate Eastern Poland in the Soviet system (Marxism and the State, 1939). He had characterised the reintroduction of ranks,saluting and gold braid in 1935 in The Revolution Betrayed. A true plebeian, this son of a wealthy merchant who had made a name for himself solely by recognising during the Russian Civil War of 1919-1922 that without former Tsarist officers the Bolshevik Revolution would go down to a bloody defeat.
Lenin’s concessions policy ( New Economic Policy).Only 2 ½ %
on the yield on gold, diamonds and oil was returned to the government in return
for a paupers’ broth and some food for the workers in the presence of
agricultural hoarding.
It is ironic that a Marxist should write a pamphlet on The Importance
of Gold as Lenin did in 1918.
The tax-in-kind for which Lenin was solely answerable, when
revived in 1928, was responsible for the Ukrainian famine that cost twelve
million lives.
The November 1918 dissolution of the Constituent Assembly
brought a ragtag and bobtail assortment of malcontents to power.
Regarding Lenin’s canard about escamotage of 1913 how are Irish Marxists to reconcile the theft of the ideas of the German Social Catholic
moment in the 19th century with intellectual Monism ( Lenin, 1914) and the Irish parallel of Allen and Kostick stealing the drafts of two books of mine which I prepared between February 1989 and April 1992.
6/9/14
Lenin wrote about militant atheism and (after the Revolution) religious obscurantism. How are we to assess his endorsement of Father Gapon who led the hunger-riots in 1905 in St Petersburg.Fr Gapon was a Tsarist agent.The protesters were shot down by the Cossacks. These events were soon the inspiration for the Moscow Insurrection of 1905.
