To Overthrow the World Quotes

“after 1917, was not that Marx and Lenin had discovered an immutable law of history driven by ever-intensifying “class struggle,” but that Lenin had shown how Communist revolutionaries could exploit the devastation of war to seize power by force—if the devastation was severe enough, and if they armed enough fanatics and foot soldiers to prevail over their opponents.”
― Sean McMeekin, To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism

“Lenin forged the doctrine of “revolutionary defeatism,” by which he meant that, if a country lost a modern war decisively enough, the resulting collapse of military discipline and prestige could weaken its government to the point that it might then be toppled by armed revolutionaries.”
― Sean McMeekin, To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism

“More than any other system of government known to man, Communist rule required the strong hand of the military and heavily armed security services, all under strict party control.”
― Sean McMeekin, To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism