Vladimir Lenin Quotes
One technical expert is worth twenty Communists.
Vladimir Lenin
Nikolai Lenin, 1870-1924, Russian Communist Premier, Quoted in Ludwig, Genius and Character, 1927
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This quotation illustrates a political phenomenon that used to be common in American politics—the spoils system where government activities, positions, contracts and grants were awarded to the supporters of the winning party and not to the opponents. In modern times government contracts were supposed to have been awarded on the basis of qualifications and price and not conditioned on political support. In this rare quotation, the secretary admitted to violating his own Department’s regulations and using politics as a criteria where existing laws prohibited that.
In other words, don’t micromanage your agents.
who worked with the Communists. The Communists were to Flip-flop again when Russia needed arms and assistance to fight Hitler when the pact broke down. See {595773}
In the Cleveland administration the government needed money and went to J. P. Morgan and other bankers for assistance. The government got the money at extremely unfavorable terms and Cleveland was roundly criticized for only consulting with the bankers and Wall Street houses, that ended up as the beneficiaries of the arrangement:
Parliamentary representatives of the Communist Party shall not introduce or support reform measures.
The Party line at the time was that any reform of the democratic institutions of America would simply delay the complete revolution. Let things get worse and then act; don’t try and fix them.
The Senator was referring to the situation when there was an anthrax terrorist attack in 2001.
See W. Averell Harriman for a later, similar view.
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by his alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia, and later the Soviet Union, became a one-party socialist state governed by the Soviet Communist Party. A Marxist, he developed a variant of this communist ideology known as Leninism.
