Marxists didn’t anticipate how effective U.S. imperialism would be at holding back global revolution
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About the American revolutionary war, Lenin wrote: “That was the war the American people waged against the British robbers who oppressed America and held her in colonial slavery, in the same way as these 'civilised' bloodsuckers are still oppressing and holding in colonial slavery hundreds of millions of people in India, Egypt, and all parts of the world.” About the American Civil War, he wrote that “for the sake of overthrowing Negro slavery, of overthrowing the rule of the slaveowners, it was worth letting the country go through long years of civil war, through the abysmal ruin, destruction and terror that accompany every war.”
Marxists didn’t anticipate how effective U.S. imperialism would be at holding back global revolution
Marxists didn’t anticipate how effective U.S…
Marxists didn’t anticipate how effective U.S. imperialism would be at holding back global revolution
About the American revolutionary war, Lenin wrote: “That was the war the American people waged against the British robbers who oppressed America and held her in colonial slavery, in the same way as these 'civilised' bloodsuckers are still oppressing and holding in colonial slavery hundreds of millions of people in India, Egypt, and all parts of the world.” About the American Civil War, he wrote that “for the sake of overthrowing Negro slavery, of overthrowing the rule of the slaveowners, it was worth letting the country go through long years of civil war, through the abysmal ruin, destruction and terror that accompany every war.”