The development of capitalism proceeds unevenly in different countries. It cannot be otherwise under commodity production. From this, it follows that socialism cannot achieve victory simultaneously in all countries. It will achieve victory first in one or several countries, while the others will remain bourgeois or pre-bourgeois for some time.
— Vladimir Lenin Modern

Leader of Russian Revolution

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On the Slogan for a United States of Europe

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1915

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Shocking

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https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1915/aug/23.htm

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