-B.
Shane Mage wrote:
"Perverse indeed, though making no sense whatsoever. Though Lenin never knew Marx personally he did know a great deal about Marx's writings and politics. He certainly didn't make up a hallucination in which he 'saw' a Marx with no resemblance whatsoever with the Marx who lived, fought, and wrote--and to start a whole new sect pretending to be faithful to his invented Marx."
B. wrote:
"I forget who extended the analogy even further by painting Lenin as the equivalent of Paul/Saul of Tarsus, which perversely makes some sense."