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for socialism… As the French say, "to change the rifle from one
shoulder to the other", i.e., to turn against the bourgeoisie the
weapon the bourgeois revolution will supply them with, the
liberty the revolution will bring... 1 12
Öcalan, who formulated his own philosophy in the light of these
ideas, has never concealed his Marxist approach or the mindset by which
he describes himself as the Lenin
of this century:
...Of course later on, the
Marxism and Leninism will be
preferred. The ABC of Socialism
(Leo Huberman) was the first
classic that I have taken into my
hands. I put it under my pillow
when I read it and said that is it.
I believe my preference for
Socialism became definite in
1969. 13
Lenin represented it in the
1900s, and I represent the 21st-
century socialism, and I am
building the new socialism by
fighting real socialism and impe-
rialism. 14
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