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If I were emotionally fragile…
…after today, I’d go to bed for a week.
The Jan 6 Commission hearings
I knew most of the awful events. Yet I did not know most of this. And I’m not so politically sophisticated that I can’t be quietly stunned and greatly moved. The horror of it.
2) I loathe Lenin, the vivisectionist
From the chapter “Language, Truth and Logic,” in Lenin, a biography by Victor Sebestyen, Lenin’s debating technique before the revolution: Those who disagreed with him were ‘scoundrels’, ‘philistines’, ‘cretins’, ‘filthy scum’, ‘whores’, ‘class traitors’, ‘silly old maids’, ‘windbags’ (one of … Continue reading
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Tagged Bolshevik Revolution, Lenin, Moishe Olgin, Victor Sebestyen, Yuli Martov
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