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John Owen Brennan (born September 22, 1955) [1] [2] is a former American intelligence officer who served as the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from March 2013 to January 2017. He served as chief counterterrorism advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama , with the title Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and ...
The center of the movement revolved around the American communist party. The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) was formally established in 1919 [2] following the 1917 Russian Revolution. The Tzarist autocracy was overthrown and the Soviet Union was formed. The members of CPUSA were mostly former members of the socialist part of America.
John O'Brennan is an Irish political scientist. He is a professor of European Politics at the Department of Sociology at Maynooth University in Ireland. [1] [2] He holds the Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration at Maynooth University [3] and is director of the Maynooth University Centre for European and Eurasian Studies. [4]
Communism (from Latin communis, 'common, universal') [1] [2] is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, [1] whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered on common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone ...
Marxism–Leninism (Russian: Марксизм-ленинизм, romanized: Marksizm-leninizm) is a communist ideology that became the largest faction of the communist movement in the world in the years following the October Revolution. It was the predominant ideology of most communist governments throughout the 20th century. [1]
New York: Basic Books, 1973. Sherman, John W., A Communist Front at Mid-Century: The American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, 1933-1959. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2001. Szajkowski, Zosa, Jews, Wars and Communism: Vol. 1: The Attitude of American Jews to World War I, the Russian Revolutions of 1917, and Communism (1914–1945).
The historical role of the Communist International, organized in 1919 as a result of the political collapse of the overwhelming majority of the old pre-war workers' parties, consisted in that it preserved the teachings of Marxism from vulgarisation and distortion by opportunist elements of the labor movement.
Freeman strains in these essays to honor the Communist Party line and, concurrently, to resist the ideological crudity, or "vulgar Marxism", that often resulted from such striving. [18] Mike Gold (1927–1930/1): Real name Itzhok Isaak Granich, the Jewish-American writer was a devout communist and abrasive left-wing