All the same, it was the pseudoscientific certainty of Marxism-Leninism, that malformed child of the Enlightenment, which was chiefly to blame.

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Even through a translator, he makes Marxism-Leninism seem a living, exciting thing.

CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | China: Inside China's Search for Its Soul

The operation is the latest of several devastating blows suffered this year by the FARC, which mixes an antiquated Marxism-Leninism with drug-trafficking and racketeering.

ECONOMIST: Colombia

To encourage model behaviour, Shanxi's Communist bosses say they have been spying on party members using webcams, and demanding officials to study more Marxism-Leninism.

BBC: Power, corruption and the Communists

As director of the Research Institute of Marxism-Leninism at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Fu Qingyuan ministers to everyone from government officials to the nation's academics.

CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | China: Inside China's Search for Its Soul

And as the nation's core ideology of Marxism-Leninism cracks under the weight of the 20th century, the Pope of Marxism is no longer a man controlling a monopoly.

CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | China: Inside China's Search for Its Soul

He got a doctorate in economics, worked briefly at the Communist Party's Institute of Marxism-Leninism, and advised the Solidarity trade union before the imposition of martial law in 1981.

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That capitalist countries will always go to war was a basic tenet of Marxism-Leninism, and saying so was unusual only in the context of the short period of the wartime alliance.

NEWYORKER: Getting Real

One of the most curious accusations of certain Western Russia critics, Ed Lucas of The Economist comes immediately to mind as the best example but there are many others, is that the current Russian regime is motivated by a nasty strain of ideology that is really not all that dissimilar from Marxism-Leninism.

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