Henry Flynt Quotes
Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it.
Flynt, Henry. Interview by Kenneth Goldsmith. WFMU, 26 Feb. 2004.
Ataturk was not receptive toward Communism as some other world leaders were at the time. He saw its weakness far earlier than many others.
This line was a takeoff on the famous quotation of Karl Marx: {624064}.
Lev Davidovich Bronstein. Although Plekhanov was the intellectual giant of Russian communism, he died only two years into the revolution. He was never happy with some of the pragmatic compromises the younger firebrand communist leaders were making from their ideals. By the time he passed away, most, especially the younger, communist leaders like Stalin saw him as an old obstructionist and he was never celebrated as a hero by the communists. It was Trotsky and older leaders like Lenin who appreciated him. See {590463}.
Commenting on political parties in Cuba:
Henry Flynt (born 1940 in Greensboro, North Carolina) is an American philosopher, musician, writer, activist, and artist connected to the 1960s New York avant-garde. He coined the term "concept art" in the early 1960s, during which time he was associated with figures in the Fluxus scene. He later received attention for his anti-art demonstrations against New York cultural institutions in 1963 and 1964.