Paul Mattick vs. Vladimir Lenin
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Paul Mattick
1904 – 1981
Paul Mattick Sr. was a German-American Marxist political writer, activist, and theorist, associated with the council communist movement. Throughout his life, Mattick was critical of capitalism, Bolshevism, and Keynesian economics.
"And so, from the standpoint of Marxism, the Russian experiments in planned economy are not to be rated as socialistic. The Russian practice is not directed acco…"
Vladimir Lenin
1870 – 1924
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He was the first head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 until his death in 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death. As the Bolsheviks' founder, Lenin led the October Revolution, which established the world's first communist state and short-lived soviet democracy.
"Imperialism is capitalism in that stage of development in which the domination of monopolies and finance capital has established itself; in which the export of …"
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