DeLong on Lenin

Brad De Long delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU
Sat Jan 2 18:46:21 PST 1999


Re:


>I suspect you are merely pulling it from E.
>Wilson's Finland Station book, which is a fine book, but also problematic
>during its moments of intuiting the essence of "the revolutionary
>personality."

Yes, I am. It is a fine book.

I had always thought that Wilson was at his best when he was trying to get inside the skulls of Marx, Lenin, and Trotsky...

Brad DeLong



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