>>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.
Maybe it wasn't easy back then, but some people still managed to work it out despite the difficulties.
Easy to say now who was right and who was wrong, you seem to be saying. But even now there are still some who haven't grasped the lesson.
Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas.