He distinguishes Lenin's contribution as accelerating revolution through a party and Mao's contribution as building a peasant uprising under communist legitimacy rather than a worker-led Marxist revolution.
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Lenin
He distinguishes Lenin's contribution as accelerating revolution through a party and Mao's contribution as building a peasant uprising under communist legitimacy rather than a worker-led Marxist revolution.
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Jiang says Trotsky supplied charisma and transnational-capital links, while Lenin supplied fanatical focus.
Jiang argues that the Russian Okhrana incubated Lenin's Bolshevik faction by protecting, informing, and likely financing it through agents such as Roman Malinovsky.
Lenin is described as a useful idiot first for the Russian secret police and then for Germany, whose wartime interest was to knock Russia out of World War I.
Jiang contrasts Lenin and Trotsky as internationalist theorists with Stalin as a nationalist power-seeker who wanted communism secured inside the Soviet Union.
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"...okay? So, it doesn't really fit into his model. But then, Lenin, okay, came and said, no, you can speed up the revolution, okay?"
"...a party to help the, the process, okay? So, that was Lenin's contribution. And Mao is like, no, you don't even need workers, okay?..."
"...The same is true for the Russian revolution. This is Vladimir Lenin. He's not charismatic. But he is extremely focused. He's very focused. He's..."
"Lenin's factionalism began to alienate increasing numbers of Bolsheviks, including his former close supporters. So this guy was an asshole. He was a fanatic...."
"...us that, okay, well. The Okhrna sent a spy to support Lenin. We can also guess that the secret police were also sending money..."
"...at war with Germany. So what Germany does is it organizes Lenin to be smuggled back into Russia so that he can foment discontent..."
"...Why are you taking all this money and giving it to Lenin? Right? All right. So ultimately, Stalin will triumph. Why? Because Lenin and..."
"He, like Lenin, both believe in an international movement of communism. They both believe that if communism is to survive in the Soviet Union,..."
"...Putin, was the personal cook to both Vladimir Putin, sorry, Vladimir Lenin, as well as Joseph Stalin. That's the first detail I want to..."
"...thing that I suspect is that he really loved and admired Lenin and Stalin especially Stalin because remember in World War two Hitler invaded..."
"because of his rapprochement with the Orthodox Church starting with Lenin there was massive persecution of the Orthodox Church because Lenin Trotsky they were..."
"...The Bolsheviks are led by Marx. The Bolsheviks are led by Lenin and they are an extreme group. The main conflict is the Mensheviks..."
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