“Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx’s proletarian socialism logically follows. This philosophical system is called dialectical materialism.”

— Joseph Stalin

Anarchism or Socialism (1906)

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General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1879–1953

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