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From Socialist Appeal, Vol. 5 No. 4, 25 January 1941, p. 4.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.
William Z. Foster, National Chairman of the Communist Party, has slipped to a pretty low estate in C.P. life. At the Lenin Memorial meeting at Madison Square Garden, Jan. 13, Foster opened his remarks by saying “Lenin is dead!” then with a sigh of relief he devoted the rest of his remarks to plugging the latest books of the Dean of Canterbury, arch theoretician of Stalinist Marxism, entitled Soviet Power.
Every speaker either started his speech with the phrase “Lenin is dead” or injected it into his remarks. No speaker spoke of Lenin’s ideas or role, but spoke only of the “accomplishments” of the U.S.S.R. under Stalin.
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