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You call yourself Marxist-Leninist.
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Well, even if we can't
compare them,
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we can draw a lesson from China.
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But the lessons you draw
are very abstract.
1:19:18
You don't draw lessons
by superposing...
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You think it's a mistake?
1:19:23
I think so.
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You're heading towards a dead-end.
1:19:28
Some comrades
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undertake their main task...
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But not firmly in hand.
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They can't do good work.
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Committee Work Techniques, 13th March 1949.
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It's not so much that.
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I told you
the arguments were valid
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but all mixed up.
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Marxism is first of all a science.
1:19:56
And there,
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the arguments were a mess,
off the cuff.
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They were a bit like children.
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Yes, you know the story
of the Egyptian children?
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Then Ill tell you.
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The Egyptians believed
their language...
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..was that of the gods.
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One day, to prove it,
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they put new-born babies
in a house
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far from any society
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to see if they would learn to talk.
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To speak Egyptian alone.
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They came back 15 years later.
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And what did they find?
1:20:47
The kids talking together,
but bleating like sheep.
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They hadn't noticed
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that next to the house
was a sheep-pen.