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ROMANTICISM: A WEAPON OF SATAN

organisations which would bring it about by force of arms. The most
important Marxist to have tried to revise the interpretation of Marx,
and to make excuses for his unrealised predictions, was Lenin.
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Lenin asserted that it was not in advanced countries such as
England where the revolution would occur, but in unindustrialised
countries like Russia. He said that communism would be successful
there, and from there would spread throughout the whole world. To
realize his dream, he spent many years, both inside and outside Russia,
making preparations for the revolution. The opportunity for him to
come to power arose from the confusion caused by World War l.
Lenin's predictions, like those of Marx, came to nothing. Neither
was the system he founded successful, nor did communism spread
throughout the world. Today, the Soviet Union that Lenin founded has
drifted into history, and the communist system it forced on those
countries it occupied has collapsed everywhere. It is accepted that
communism was the gravest and most unsuccessful political
experiment of the twentieth century.

That Marxism was flawed has been proven, not only by its
unfulfilled promises, and the collapse of the system it gave rise to, but
also by the failure of the philosophy it was based on. The basic
premises of the materialist philosophy, which is the basis of Marxism,
have been discredited by the scientific discoveries of the twentieth
century. For example:

1. Materialism asserts that the universe has existed forever and
that matter, therefore, was not created. But the Big Bang theory,
accepted in the twentieth century, indicates that matter and time were
created from nothing. This theory proposed that the universe came
into being from nothing 10-15 billion years ago, appearing as a sudden
and small activity out of nothingness. In other words, the truth that the
"Big Bang" theory reveals is that nothing happened by chance; that
there was an activity out of nothingness, and after this activity, matter
and time appeared. This theory completely discredits materialist