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Marxists have more than once pointed out that the capitalist world economic system contains in itself the seeds of a general crisis and of warlike clashes.

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Joseph Stalin
Age: 74 †
Born: 1878
Born: December 18
Died: 1953
Died: March 5
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Former Premier Of The Soviet Union
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