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While not a single Marxist ‘charismatic leader’ in the twentieth century made revolution in an advanced capitalist country , or undertook the ‘withering away of the state’ , or insured against the rule of elites , or provide for the obligatory ‘rotation in office’ , or resolved the problem of human ‘alienation’ —Western academics have never hesitated to directly associate Marxism-Leninism, Maoism, Castroism, and even the barbarism of the Khmer Rouge, with the philosophy of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. (en) |