Steve Bannon, chief strategist to US President Donald Trump, once called himself “a Leninist” - to the delight of Victor Sebestyen, a journalist for the Times, Spectator and Standard.
Sebestyen puts Bannon and Lenin together in a ‘Comment is Free’ article for the Guardian to demonise his two foes by showing their alleged similarities. “Bannon has an assortment of Leninist political tactics that could have come from the Bolshevik leader’s playbook.”
How could Steve Bannon, investment banker, former vice president at Goldman Sachs and founder of ‘alt-right’ blog Breitbart News, call himself a Leninist? Vladimir Lenin was the leader of the Russian revolution that ended Russian capitalism and formed the first democratically elected workers’ government in history!
In 2013, Bannon said: “Lenin wanted to destroy the state and that’s my goal too.” Bannon seems to see the capitalist state as an obstacle to maximising the capitalists’ profits.
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