"Lenin was a right-wing deviation of the socialist movement and he was so regarded...by the mainstream Marxists... Bolshevism was a right-wing deviation."
— Noam Chomsky

January 1, 1970

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Speech on “Lenin, Trotsky and Socialism and the Soviet Union”, (March 15, 1989)