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 "Old fashioned... violent... complicated... boring... nice in theory... nightmare in practice... waste of time... long words... mechanical... years in the library... abstract... Russia... failure... not that simple... time for something new... dead... beard."
Well, that just about sums up all you need to know about Karl Marx.Still with us? Then you have something in common with Karl Marx when he was a young student in Germany 150 years ago. You don't always do as you're told, for a start. And if the powers-that-be tell you their official version of things, (and the list above is about all they'll tell you about Karl Marx), you try to hear the other side of the story.
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 The ideas of Lenin
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A revolutionary life.
Rosa Luxemburg was born in 1870 and went to school in what was then Russian Poland. She attracted a lot of attention from the authorities because of her interest in the revolutionary movement and was forced to leave Russia.
In exile, she joined the German Social Democratic Party (SPD), and became an influential leader - despite being a young woman, Polish and disabled. She spent much of her time arguing against other leaders in the SPD on particular issues including the question of the general strike.
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Everyone has heard his name. To be a 'Trot' means to be a rebel, someone who wants to overthrow the system. But how many know what Trotsky really stood for?