tribute, in one way or another, to the overthrow of capitalist soci. efy... Fighting was his element."
Those who worry today about the weakness of the revolutionary movement should take heart from this quote from Francis Wheen's recent biography of Karl Marx: *Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong but always by the strength of the weak."
Tony Blair's modernisation of the Labour Party is beginning. more and more, to resemble Stalin's "de-bolshevisation" of the CPSU.
First, pack the party conference with faithful acolytes. Not able to despatch critics and opponents to the Outer Hebrides, selection procedures are rigged - how loyally the favoured respond. Just as in the Soviet congresses. every speaker paid tribute to the "great Stalin", so nearly every minister and many ambitious MPs. speaking from the platform in Bournemouth, made absolutely sure they remembered to refer to the inspired leadership of Tony Blair.
How long will it be until, like Stalin, Blair takes out his watch to one ontor on ovar tion?
Those at present enjoying the patronage of No 10 should not be too complacent. When he started his rise to power.
Stalin's closest associates were Zinovier and Kamenev. This did not save them from ignominy and death by a bullet in the back of their heads. The Gulag was filled with faithful Stalinists. Look out for the stab in the back!