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"World Forum/Communist Quiz" is a Monty Python sketch, which first aired in the 12th episode of the second season of Monty Python's Flying Circus on 15 December 1970. [1] It featured four icons of Communist thought, namely Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Ché Guevara and Mao Zedong being asked quiz questions.
Other historians paying attention to the question have differed, with Robert H. McNeal concluding that while Lenin "certainly helped form Stalin's ideas on the nationality question before the essay of 1913 was composed" and "probably edited it for republication in 1914," at root "the work remains essentially Stalin's."
The Nationalities Question by Rosa Luxemburg in 1909 [1] Theses on the National Question , writings by Vladimir Lenin in 1913, first published in 1925 [ 2 ] The Problem of Nationalities , Chapter 39 of Leon Trotsky 's History of the Russia Revolution Volume 3: The Triumph of the Soviets [ 3 ]
In these, Lenin articulated the position of the Bolsheviks, supporting the right of nations to self-determination. The most important of these was The National Question in Our Program, but the topic was also covered in On the Manifesto of the League of the Armenian Social-Democrats and The Position of the Bund in the Party. [5]
The Right of Nations to Self-Determination is a work by Vladimir Lenin written in February–May 1914. [1] It dealt with the national question in relation to countries such as Norway and Poland. A polemic against Rosa Luxemburg, it was written in the vein of "The Awakening in the East."
Under Lenin, the education system allowed relaxed discipline in schools that became based upon Marxist theory, but Stalin reversed this in 1934 with a conservative approach taken with the reintroduction of formal learning, the use of examinations and grades, the assertion of full authority of the teacher and the introduction of school uniforms ...
Elon Musk reposted a meme that mocks Bill Clinton's claim in 2000 that the US could be 'debt-free' within 10 years — national debt now stands at $34T, Musk warns it will 'soon exceed $100T'
Lenin was an internationalist and a keen supporter of world revolution, deeming national borders to be an outdated concept and nationalism a distraction from class struggle. [451] He believed that in a socialist society, the world's nations would inevitably merge and result in a single world government . [ 452 ]