On Apr 24, 2009, at 9:30 PM, SA wrote:
> Just because someone's a jerk doesn't mean they're not worth
> reading. Apart from the historical interest, though, I don't really
> see what's to be gained from reading Lenin today, unless you take
> capitalism to be some kind of timeless object trapped in amber since
> 1917.
Lenin wasn't like that at all, though modern Leninists often are. He was extremely flexible.
> There's something both tragic and comic about Lenin. He ended his
> days despairing over the catastrophe that was his revolution but he
> never once seemed to grasp that it was the logical consequence of
> his lifelong worldview,
Easy to say that now. Not so easy in 1912 or 1917. You just never know.