And he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?
2005, John H. McClendon, C.L.R. James's Notes on Dialectics: Left Hegelianism or Marxism-Leninism?, page 27
The contemporary defeats suffered by the international working-class movement, in the past wo decades, are thought to be sufficient ground for the declaration that Marxism-Leninism, and its philosophy of dialectical and historical materialism, is a dead dog.