"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."
— Vladimir Lenin

January 1, 1970

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