@markx15,
markx15;17755 wrote:By Lenin I hope you mean Stalin, because Lenin was the one step back to take two steps forward, he was dead before Stalin took power. THey did not however reach their beliefs through interpreting the communist manifest, they found their path on their own.
Skinnard, you couldn't be more wrong. Lenin and Mao were the greatest revolutionaries of all time. Lenin was the first
political guerrilla fighter of substance, and Mao was the first to systematically study, analyze and organize guerrilla warfare into a hard doctrine that remains the bible of insurgency today. They came from two different perspectives: Lenin with his urban
proletariat, and Mao, with his 'naturally rebellious'
peasantry. Their idiosyncracies and experiences aside, they both founded the general principles of their colossal revolutions on Marx.
Yet without them, Marxism wouldn't have amounted to Jack's Crap.:headbang: