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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-22-06 02:35 PM
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A question for Lebowski fans and Marxist-Leninists
In the move "The Big Lebowski" a character says "It's like Lenin say, you just look for the person who benefits and.....y'know" I'm dying to know the exact words that Lenin used before the dude mangled it. Could anyone provide a quotation and citation?
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-24-06 02:22 PM
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1. dammit I want answers!
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RPM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 11:42 PM
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2. you want answers?
....
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sasquatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 12:28 AM
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3. Shut the fuck up Donny!
:D
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 01:38 AM
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8. Dude, the chinaman is not the issue here!
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 12:37 AM
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4. aw fuck it
let's go bowling
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 01:11 AM
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5. googling "lenin benefits" I find
"How is our government's senseless policy in China to be explained? Who benefits by it? The benefit goes to a handful of capitalist magnates who carry on trade with China, to a handful of factory owners who manufacture goods for the Asian market, to a handful of con tractors who are now piling up huge profits on urgent war orders (factories producing war equipment, supplies for the troops, etc., are now operating at full capacity and are engaging hundreds of new workers)."

http://www.marxist.com/war-in-china-lenin1900.htm
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 01:23 AM
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6. okay, maybe this is closer
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/apr/11.htm

There is a Latin tag cui prodest? meaning “who stands to gain?” When it is not immediately apparent which political or social groups, forces or alignments advocate certain proposals, measures, etc., one should always ask: “Who stands to gain?”

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fishwax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 01:24 AM
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7. I am the Walrus
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radwriter0555 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 01:39 AM
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9. Hmm, are there actually ANY marxist/leninists in existence anymore?
Nahhhhhhh... probably as many of them as there are actual, genuine al queda members on the planet.... like 12?
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 01:42 AM
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10. Hey! I"M a freaking Marxist
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radwriter0555 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 02:49 AM
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12. Kewl! You're the first one I've ever actually encountered in any forum,
ever, in my life!

Now I know one!

I'm a socialist.
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 01:44 AM
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11. *ahem*
Edited on Wed Mar-01-06 01:44 AM by GirlinContempt
"Ladies and gentlemen," one feels like saying about all these phrases mouthed by patriots, so-called "Put no faith in phrase-mongering, it is better to see who stands to gain!"

http://www.socialistworker.org/2004-1/502/502_08_Lenin.shtml
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