Tag Archives: Victor Sebestyen

If you have fond thoughts about Lenin and the Revolution…stop. it. right. now

Posted on September 20, 2024 by Naomi

Or else. (That’s an empty threat, in case you shivered in fear when reading it.) Because I went to an excellent high school, a large public high school with terrific (union) teachers, my classmates and I were assigned an interesting … Continue reading →

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3) I loathe Lenin and his contempt for humanity

Posted on June 21, 2022 by Naomi

From Lenin, a biography by Victor Sebestyen: Later in 1905, Moscow workers went on strike. Soldiers from the crack Semenovsky Guards were sent to force them back to work. They surrounded the militants in a working-class district of the city, … Continue reading →

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2) I loathe Lenin, the vivisectionist

Posted on June 20, 2022 by Naomi

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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