US imperialists training Iranian terrorists

One of the weapons perfected by the US imperialists to create trouble for countries and governments which oppose them is to organise and back subversive groups from within those countries. These groups are trained to carry out sabotage, assassination and other criminal activities aimed at destabilising those countries.

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The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky (1918)

  • Author: Lenin
  • Date: Nov 1918
  • Location: Russia
  • Link: http://www.marx2mao.com/Lenin/RK18.html
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    Kautsky's pamphlet, The Dictatorship of the Proletariat, recently published in Vienna (Wien, I918, Ignaz Brand, 63 pp.) is a most lucid example of that utter and ignominious bankruptcy of the Second International about which all honest Socialists in all countries have been talking for a long time. The proletarian revolution is now becoming a practical issue in a number of countries, and an examination of Kautsky's renegade sophistries and complete renunciation of Marxism is therefore essential.

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The Capitalist System of Modern Agriculture (1910)

  • Author: Lenin
  • Date: September 1910
  • Location: Russia
  • Link: http://www.marx2mao.com/Lenin/CSMA10.html
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Social statistics in general and economic statistics in particular have made tremendous advances during the last two or three decades. A series of problems, moreover those most fundamental concerning the economic system of modern states and its development, which were previously decided on the basis of general considerations and approximate data, cannot nowadays be analysed at all seriously without taking into account the mass of data about the whole territory of a given country collected according to a single definite programme and summed up by expert statisticians. In particular, the problems of the economics of agriculture, which arouse particularly many disputes, require answering on the basis of exact, mass data, the more so since in the European states and in America it is a growing practice to make periodic censuses covering all the agricultural enterprises of the country…

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The Agrarian Question (1906)

  • Author: Stalin
  • Date: March 1906
  • Location: Russia
  • Link: www.marx2mao.com/Stalin/AQ06.html
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The old order is breaking up, the countryside is in upheaval. The peasantry, who only yesterday were crushed and downtrodden, are today rising to their feet and straightening their backs. The peasant movement, which only yesterday was helpless, is today sweeping like a turbulent flood against the old order: get out of the way — or I'll sweep you away! "The peasants want the landlords' land," "The peasants want to abolish the remnants of serfdom" — such are the voices now heard in the rebellious villages and hamlets of Russia.

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The Historical Meaning of the Inner Party Struggle in Russia (1911)

  • Author: Lenin
  • Date: 1911
  • Location: Russia
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The subject indicated by the above title is dealt with in articles by Trotsky and Martov in Nos. 50 and 51 of Neue Zeit. Martov expounds Menshevik views. Trotsky follows in the wake of the Mensheviks, taking cover behind particularly sonorous phrases. Martov sums up the "Russian experience" by saying: "Blanquist and anarchist lack of culture triumphed over Marxist culture" (read: Bolshevism over Menshevism). "Russian Social-Democracy spoke too zealously in Russian ", in contrast to the "general European " methods of tactics. Trotsky's "philosophy of history" is the same. The cause of the struggle is the "adaptation of the Marxist intelligentsia to the class movement of the proletariat". "Sectarianism, intellectualist individualism, ideological fetishism" are placed in the forefront. "The struggle for influence over the politically immature proletariat " — that is the essence of the matter….

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