The US is the richest country in the world, yet an international outlier on many measures. Among industrialized nations, the US spends a lower percentage of its GDP on public social expenditure, has no universal healthcare system, union density is at an all-time low, and the average American’s standard of living is in decline, as [...]
Having recently presented Classical Marxist theory, then Leninist strategy, and last time Bolshevik practice, this essay moves on to critically assess Leninist strategy as the next step toward assessing Marxist Leninist Ideology as a whole. Most of this article, like others in this series, was conceived and written back in the early 1970s and excerpted [...]
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