To dear Ibarruri It seems to me we are not on opposite sides as I am also an anti-NATO individual, surely am not pro-west (even though I am not that much anti-west, as someone might get an impression from my posts), and, to speak frankly, I am definitely pro-Russian. However, as to Karl Marx, I must admit that can hardly stand to hear his name, for I have spent a great deal of my life every day hearing his name was glorified! I have been refusing with contempt to read and to know the details of his works even at times when that was a compulsory literature. I sense however that he probably was not that bad scientist as it might seem when one judges about him through the words and deeds of his followers. Nevertheless, I flatly dislike hearing the words like "communism", revolution, commune, marx/engels, socialism, etc.

Ibarruri from Lagos To dear Vladimir, With an apt name like Yours , I would have expected you to be more informed about the works of Karl Marx than you do. Contrary to your views,Karl Marx correctly drew conclussions from the events of the Paris Commune of 1871 , being the First Socialist revolution in history, that socialism was only the "Transition between capitalism and Communism" during which the class struggle between the emerging proleteriat in power and the defeated bourgeoisie cannot but result either in the revolutionary transition into a classless society - the communist society- or a restoration of Bourgoise dictatorship- the capitalist society. He was not given to predictions as prophets do. The events both in the Paris commune then and recently in the Soviet Union, amply vindicates Karl Marx ,whose Scientific doctrine remains a tool for the transformation of society in the interrest of the working class and the translation into life, of their moral and social ideals to this day. Of course the celebrants of the fall of the Berlin wall are pursuing the same anti- communist propaganda theme characteristic of the western attitude towards the Soviet Union , this time clearly aimed at the Heirs of the Great Soviet Union, Russia , and intent on embarrassing it . But the Russian People are not to be deceived by their antics as the forward match of Mankind and its Global society is inexorably ant-capitalist, anti-NATO, and anti-Fascist, all of which the wall symbolised .