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If you think you do not quite get the meaning of these definitions, do not
worry and do not feel depressed , just keep repeating them as often as possible
and never , never let other people suspect that,
if
they mean anything , they
mean exactly what was meant in previous and simple definitions. QED.
Third version : Marxist-Leninist, Western variant
(the author is a young
German assistant professor, teaching sociology in West Berlin):
The real scientific problem is : Was Marx a Marxist-Leninist? The answer
is yes. The next question is : When did he become Marxist-Leninist? The
correct scientific solution is that when Marx was employing the concept of
alienation he was just a petty-bourgeois democrat (progressive in this histori–
cal period , yet inconsistent), because alienation is essentially an incorrect,
unscientific , bourgeois concept based on the idea of human being in general.
But , scientifically, there is no human being in general, only capitalists and
proletarians . Later on, Marx overcame his petty-bourgeois concepts and came
to the correct theory of value. This correct theory correctly and scientifically
proves that capitalism will be overthrown by revolution and that we will take
power. And so, Marx correctly and scientifically became a Marxist-Leninist
reaching the scientific level of Enver Hoxha and Walter Ulbricht. QED.
Fourth version : Marxist-Leninist, Soviet variant
(the author represents
and expresses the thought of 200 million Soviet people enthusiastically
devoted to Marxism-Leninism and their leaders) :
The imperialist-Trotskyist-Ii beral-fascist -Maoist-monarchist-revisionist–
chauvinist-cosmopolite liars and renegades try to deny that Marxism–
Leninism is the invincible weapon of toiling masses. In vain, because the
Marxist-Leninist science proves that the Marxist-Leninist science is the
invincible weapon of toiling masses. As comrade N . (change when appro–
priate) said : " Marxism-Leninism is the invincible weapon of toiling
masses. " QED .
Fifth version: French-dialectical-existentialist-Marxist
(the author is a French
ex-Communist , now critical and humanist, but allowing nobody to be further
to the Left than he is) :
This version. unfortunately, can be properly expressed only in French
and it says : "L'ctre humain, tout en s'affirmant dans sa negativite, se me
dans cene affirmation . Par consequent, en n'etant pas, dynamiquement, ce
qu 'il est, il est, statiquement, ce qu'il n'est pas. II s'ensuit qu'en s'arrachant
de sa positivite, deja en etat de l'autonegation, il n'acheve la totalite qu'a
travers la forme detotalisante . Et c'est l'alienation. Et la valeur? C'est
l'approfondissement de cene non-totalite en mouvement de la negativite
totalisante. Et c' est la revolution, oui, c'est la revolution! (A clumsy trans–
lation : " The human being, while he affirms himself in his very negativity,
denies himself in this affmnation. Consequently, while dynamically he is not
