Bertrand Russell found that Lenin, who spoke English, was committed to "absolute orthodoxy" and "was quite incapable" of seeing any error in Marx. Then Lenin laughed in explaining how the Bolsheviks stirred up "poor peasants" to massacre the "rich peasants". #pt
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Wasn't it Lenin who coined the expression "useful idiots?"
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I believe there's a line somewhere about some things being so stupid only intellectuals *can* believe them.
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