John Desmond Bernal Quotes
If science were communism, was it also not possible that communism could itself become a science?
Vladimir Lenin. 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 Lenin and older leaders like Trotsky who appreciated him. See {590462}.
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At the time, the CIA was covertly financing and organizing opposition to Allende. Nonetheless, he won the election but the CIA organized a coup d’etat and removed him.
The reason that this quotation is important is that most Americans from the 1920s on concerned with Marxism and communism in the United States, conflated Marxism with Anarchists as if Marxists were anarchists who were bent on violence. In reality, to most Marxists, anarchists were more their enemy than the capitalists. Stalin was then only 28 years old and the Russian revolution was 9 years in the future.
John Desmond Bernal FRS was an Irish scientist who pioneered the use of X-ray crystallography in molecular biology. He published extensively on the history of science. In addition, Bernal wrote popular books on science and society, and he was also a communist activist.
