CHAVEZ: Next Gift for Obama Authored by Lenin

[magbana]

AP: Chavez: Next gift for Obama authored by Lenin
Posted by: "Walter Lippmann" [e-mail] walterlx
Fri May 29, 2009 10:58 pm (PDT)


Chavez: Next gift for Obama authored by Lenin
1 hour ago

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) President Hugo Chavez says he has a new book for President Barack Obama: "What is to be Done?" by communist Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet state.

Chavez says he'll "give it to Obama at the next meeting."

"What is to be Done?" is Lenin's political treatise on the role of intellectuals and the proletariat in promoting revolution, written more than a decade before he led the Bolshevik takeover of Russia in 1917.

Chavez gave Obama a copy of "Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent" by Eduardo Galeano at an April summit.

The book jumped the next day to the No. 2 seller on Amazon.com.

Chavez spoke Friday on a marathon, anniversary edition of his "Hello President" television show.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/latinamerica/6448053.html

Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

[Idealism]

1. He's such a ballbuster sometimes lol

I think he gets a kick out of hearing the opposition cries of "Communisto"