By Daniel Greenfield

"That brought us to our essential difference, the difference of the Evolutionary Collectivist and Marxist, the question whether the social revolution is, in its extremity, necessary, whether it is necessary to over throw one economic system completely before the new one can begin. I believe that through a vast sustained educational campaign the existing Capitalist system can be civilised into a Collectivist world system." -- H.G. Wells, Russia in the Shadows

This quote comes from H. G. Wells' conversation with Vladimir Lenin. Wells was highlighting the difference between Lenin's radical revolutionary program and Wells' own "Open Conspiracy" evolutionary collectivist program.

What that means is that Lenin and H. G. Wells didn't disagree on the final destination, a collectivist world system... socialism on a global scale applied to everyone and every single country. What they disagreed on was how to get there.

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Read more:http://www.absoluterights.com/sunday-rea...n-to-karl-marx/

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How the Democratic Party Went from Thomas Jefferson to Karl Marx

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Interestingly, next weeks article is on how the GOP went from Abraham Lincoln to Groucho Marx.