"We [Marxists] have always known, said, and emphasised that Socialism cannot be "introduced," that it emerges out of the most intense, the most acute class struggle-which reaches heights of frenzy and desperation-and civil war; we have always said that a long period of "birth-pangs"lies between capitalism and Socialism; that violence is always the mid-wife of the old society; that a special state (that is, a specific system of organized coercion of a specific class) comes into existence between the bourgeois and the Socialist society, namely, the dictatorship of the proletariat. Dictatorship implies and means a state of simmering war, a state of military measures of struggle against the enemies of the proletarian power." -Lenin (Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe by Robert Gellately)
I don't think their will be much violence in the socialist revolution that appears to be slowly taking place in America. Lenin was just too impatient compared to politicians in our country who have slowly been dragging us down the path to socialism.
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This is how it is done, slowly unwares when we are in the most vulnerable state of mind and then we finally wake up it is too late. I think we have enough members of our society who are smart enough to be able to overcome those you wants to drag us slowly into hell.
Maybe we just haven't gotten all the way there yet. In any case, it's great that you're thinking and learning about it. It clears up a lot of the writing in the Book of Mormon about the secret combinations doesn't it? Keep up the good work. Grandpa Alf would be so happy to see your interest in learning about the Church and the Constitution. He has some very bright grandchildren.
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