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12. government - "We must have a rank and file dictatorship through delegates directly representative of the various workshops and industries" (from 'All Hail, the Scottish Workers' Republic!!'). He also warned against fascism, pointing out just before his death that "when the moment arrives...propertied class politicians will...send parlia- ment about its business". 27 The Communist Party of Great Britain also pursued a revolutionary Marxist-Leninist line until the 1950's when, along with a number of other parties including that of the Soviet Union after Stalin's death, it rejected the funda- mental teachings of Marxism on the need for violent revol- ution and proletarian dictatorship in favour of the trea- cherous parliamentary or "British Road to Socialism" and degenerated into a bourgeois party. At the same time the Soviet leadership embarked on a course of capitalist rest- oration and imperialist expansion under Kruschev and then Brezhnev. They have thus come full circle from rejecting Marxism including its teaching on the inevitability of wars between capitalist states upheld by Lenin, MacLean and other Marxists, to becoming the worst of war-mongers and violators of national rights themselves, under a vici- ous mask of 'detente' and 'internationalism'.28 Lenin and MacLean were revolutionary working class lea- ders, i.e. not the self-seeking misleaders who have sold out to the bourgeoisie for a few crumbs from their colon- ial super-profits, but "the most authoritative, influent- ial and experienced" representatives of their class, "the most advanced and resolute", tirelessly seeking to educate and organise the masses. Lenin's high opinion of MacLean is important because Lenin was the most outstanding inter- national revolutionary working class leader tempered in the particularly acute conditions of the struggle in Russia. MacLean's high opinion of Lenin is important because it shows how the fiercely independent and self-re- liant "beloved leader of the Scottish workers" recognised that the basic Marxist principles of the Great October Socialist Revolution apply in Scotland as elsewhere - "I stand in the Gorbals and before the world as a bolshevik, alias a communist, alias a revolutionist, alias a Marxist. My symbol is the Red Flag, and it I shall always keep floa- ting on high" (Gorbals Parliamentary Election Address, 1922) No 1. ci wa Ge Le be li Lu 2. de su th Bo 3. ai wi IV re sh on om Pa re in ag in SL wa io th 4. nm 5. J. 6. the Bo soc du 7. the