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   From: mybaconbutty@hotmail.com   
      
   On Thu, 19 May 2016 03:16:09 -0400, Tak To    
   wrote:   
      
   >On 5/18/2016 4:49 AM, Anton Shepelev wrote:   
   >>   
   >> As Leon Trotsky said, in order to straighten a stick   
   >> one must bend it the other way.   
   >   
   >Mao Zedong said almost the exact same thing[1] a couple   
   >of years earlier (1927 vs 1930).  I often wonder if   
   >there was a common origin.   
   >   
   >[1] ?????????? (Study Report on the Peasant Movements   
   >  in Hunan)   
      
   Vladimir Ilich Lenin.   
      
   ".... it is (Julius) Martov—who in this same series of meetings   
   becomes the leader of the Menshevik faction of the Russian party—who   
   says that Lenin “made a confession to us” that “‘the stick had been   
   bent in one direction, and so we bent it the other way.’........   
   Depending on which translation you use, Lenin may have also used the   
   metaphor in the 1903 debates, saying—either “We all know that the   
   economists bent the stick in one direction. In order to straighten the   
   stick it was necessary to bend it in the other direction, and that is   
   what I did,”...."   
      
   http://isreview.org/issue/61/lenins-stickbending   
      
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