Big credit to you for bringin up Lenin. He has a well-deserved reputation for lots of atrocities and horrid stuff, but the man was no idiot - he was in fact brilliant, and had a very incisive intellect, rather effortlessly disecting whatever topic he touched upon.
And it doesn't do anyone any favours that that aspect has been so downplay…
Big credit to you for bringin up Lenin. He has a well-deserved reputation for lots of atrocities and horrid stuff, but the man was no idiot - he was in fact brilliant, and had a very incisive intellect, rather effortlessly disecting whatever topic he touched upon.
And it doesn't do anyone any favours that that aspect has been so downplayed for propaganda-reasons during the Cold War. Among the old-school hard-core marxists he was required reading, and as they wound up in academia during the early 1960s... well. Here we are.
After all, Lenin is the originator of the concept and term "politically correct" in all its horrorschau.
Big credit to you for bringin up Lenin. He has a well-deserved reputation for lots of atrocities and horrid stuff, but the man was no idiot - he was in fact brilliant, and had a very incisive intellect, rather effortlessly disecting whatever topic he touched upon.
And it doesn't do anyone any favours that that aspect has been so downplayed for propaganda-reasons during the Cold War. Among the old-school hard-core marxists he was required reading, and as they wound up in academia during the early 1960s... well. Here we are.
After all, Lenin is the originator of the concept and term "politically correct" in all its horrorschau.