Some American conservatives seem to be toying with the ‘soft’ fascism of Portuguese dictator Antonio Salazar
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Putin blames Lenin for creating Ukraine
Putin has attacked Lenin for creating the Ukraine while idolising Stalin and greater Russian nationalism
Eric Hobsbawm – historian and Marxist pessimist
Eric Hobsbawm became more pessimistic about the possibility of the working class transforming society from 1978 onwards
The Portuguese Revolution of 1974
The 1974 Portuguese Revolution saw 80% of the economy nationalised but the role of the Community Party ensured the reversal of that policy
1979 Iran revolution – a Marxist perspective
The Iran revolution in 1979 was taken over by Ayatollah Khomeini and the mullahs which most on the Left saw as a reactionary development
Karl Marx – the Euro philosopher!
The ideas of Karl Marx were a mix of German philosophy, English economics and French politics so very Euro in its ideological composition