V.I. Lenin

Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism [Atlas Intellectuals]

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This week in the Atlas Intellectuals course on Capitalism we consider the continuing impact of Vladimir Lenin’s Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism. We here summarize Lenin’s “Preface,” in which he presents his core themes.  The full course: https://www.atlassociety.org/course/capitalism. Other Atlas Intellectuals courses on Socialism, Objectivity, Money, Robotics, and more: https://www.atlassociety.org/atlas-university/atlas-intellectuals

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Socialism and the surveillance state, Lenin’s 1917 version

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Socialism and the surveillance state, Lenin’s 1917 version: “Only socialism will be the beginning of a rapid, genuine, truly mass forward movement, embracing first the majority, and then the whole of the population, in all spheres of public and private life. … [Then] the escape from this popular accounting and control will inevitably become so

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Marxists and violence

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Following up on a series of recent posts on Marxism and its fellow travelers (Engels, Mao, Guzmán, Hobsbawm), a question about whether Marxism’s brutal history is a built-in consequence of its principles or an accidental by-product of well-intentioned theory. So a series of quotations from some principal figures: Marx in 1848: “there is only one

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