Jacob Segal wrote:
> Lenin himself
> said in his own defense that you have to bash in people heads in order to
> stop people from bashing heads forever, indicating that he saw an unlimited
> violence as justified.
That sneaking in of the modifier "unlimited" can stand as a image for the whole history of anti-communism and red-baiting (as can the attempt, not quoted) to treat Lenin, Stalin, and Mao as but separate names for the same substance.
Carrol