Marxist-Leninism

Submitted by Wallace Francis (United States), Jul 10, 2002 at 01:04

I find it disturbing that radical Islamic terrorists with the most primitive, unsophisticated beliefs backed up with revisionist history could be compared to brilliant secular thinkers like Marx and Lenin, who in no uncertain terms criticized capitalism with a razor sharp intellect. While they certainly made their fair share of errors, comparing them to these dinosaurs, is, I think, a mischaracterization of the historical facts....

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