Vladimir Lenin Quotes
Those going to Russia undertake to work their hardest and with the greatest efficiency and discipline exceeding those of capitalist standards, as otherwise Russia will not be able to outstrip capitalism or even catch up with it.
Vladimir Lenin. This quotation sheds light on two points. Russian industry 4 years after the Revolution was in terrible shape—especially at the managerial level. A plan was devised to import volunteer American managers to help run Russian factories and other enterprises—an early type of Peace Corps. In addition it shows that the Russian Leadership understood this problem and were, even then, committed to trying to reach and exceed the standards of Western capitalism.
Nikolai Lenin, 1870-1924, Russian Communist Premier, Letter to V. V. Kuibyshev, September 22, 1921
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Over a century ago writers were beginning to see the downside of a global economy. They had not however seen the enormous benefits against which the cost must be weighed.
In retrospect, the Marshall plan was so successful that most people forget or never knew that there was much domestic and foreign opposition and criticism. See {615799}.
After Turkey’s defeat in WWI, some Turkish leaders like Riza Nur wanted Turkey to become a colony of America. This they believed would hasten Turkey’s development and modernization.
This quotation illustrates the statements of White that caused conservatives to dislike him. However, most historians agree that White passed classified information to the Russians. He was accused of being a Communist, but there was never any evidence of that. Some people believe that he was a spy for the Russians and committed espionage, but others disagree observing that White was very much his own man and felt that much information that was classified never should have been. White substituted his own judgment, it is believed, about what could be given to the Russians for the security system. He was an admirer of what Russian socialism had accomplished economically, educationally and medically since the 1917 revolution deposing the Czar. Russia had been a valuable military ally, which had taken the brunt of both military and civilian casualties in WWII. White’s economics were certainly not Marxist but very much Keynesian. He was subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee where he was accused of being a Communist which he denied (see {634907}). He died of a heart attack 3 days later.
Executed by the English for his part in the Easter Uprising. Although a century ago, Connolly captured the centrality of the development problem of every Third World County trying to compete in a global economy. The irony is that Ireland, long after achieving Independence, had the lowest standard of living in Europe for years. The great Irish breakthrough came as the result of the government making a huge national investment providing the capital for giving all of Ireland access to the Internet and passed laws for the information age. The Irish people took it from there. They leapfrogged wealthier nations and found customers all over the globe because they had the infrastructure to reach the rest of the globe just as fast as anyone else. See {589760} for Connolly’s idea to bring technology of the time to Ireland. The Irish information revolution was accomplished by using this idea for information technology instead of farm technology.
He was thrown out of the Labour Party for his pro Cold War and Soviet statements.
Ataturk, trying to modernize Turkey was attempting it in a single generation and to a great extent succeeded.
The Japanese learned very fast how to be great competitors, except that the American and European style of competition did not completely convert the Japanese domestic market where there is a huge degree of protectionism—especially with anything involving food.
This quotation is an amazing prediction that was 100 years in the future. China had a mercantile culture and tradition that was suppressed and controlled by the Emperors, the Europeans, the Nationalist Chinese, the Japanese, and finally the Communists who finally found a way to provide commercial freedom if not political, religious, and cultural liberty. But the talent for commerce was clear even 100 years ago to those who were broadminded enough to see it behind the antl-Asian prejudice of the 19th and early 20th century.
Because as an economist, Galbraith acknowledged the Soviet successes in steel, heavy military weaponry, many conservatives thought he was very left wing. However Galbraith was one of the first to identify the economic weaknesses of Russia.
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.
