The utter failure of Lenin's "Imperialism" as a work of logic only
highlight its success as propaganda. To convince people of the truth of
something that is true by logical inference from evidence requires no
talent whatever in the arts of propaganda. But to convince many highly
educated people around the world of a theory that is demonstrably false, by
the use of hard data, artfully presented, is clearly a triumph of
propaganda that makes Lenin's "Imperialism" one of the great classics of
that art. -- Thomas Sowell, "The Quest for Cosmic Justice"
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