Leninist

You’re unlikely to find another rigorously reported book this year that ends with its subjects advocating for movements to become more Leninist — in the sense of having a hard core ready to step into a power vacuum.

Or maybe it’s in the Leninist spirit of “the worse, the better.”

As one of Vladimir Lenin's most loyal lieutenants, Dzerzhinsky helped establish the revolutionary government using ruthless Leninist tactics: the brutal persecution of opponents - or anyone even suspected of being an opponent.

“For Vietnam, a communist state with a pretty rigid kind of Leninist hierarchy of diplomatic relations, this stuff actually matters,” he said.

Seattle is also the birthplace of socialist feminism, initiated by the beloved revolutionary feminist, Leninist and community organizer Clara Fraser, whose 100th birthday would have been this year.