>At high school, Lenin fell in love with Latin. His headteacher had high hopes that he might become a philologist and Latin scholar. History willed otherwise, but Lenin’s passion for Latin, and taste for the classics, never left him. He read Virgil, Ovid, Horace and Juvenal in the original, as well as Roman senatorial orations. He devoured Goethe during his two decades in exile, reading and rereading Faust many times.>Lenin put his knowledge of the classics to good use in the time leading up to the October revolution of 1917. In April of that year, he broke with Russian social-democratic orthodoxy and, in a set of radical theses, called for a socialist revolution in Russia. A number of his own close comrades denounced him. In a sharp riposte, Lenin quoted Mephistopheles from Goethe’s masterwork: “Theory, my friend, is grey, but green is the eternal tree of life.”>Lenin knew better than most that classical Russian literature had always been infused with politics. Even the most “apolitical” of writers had found it difficult to conceal their contempt for the state of the country. Ivan Goncharov’s novel Oblomov was a case in point. Lenin loved this work.
It was all a larp. Demagogues know they have to look clever.Also,>citing the fucking Guardian
>>25188646Ah shit I'm sorry bro i normally stick to Fox News and the Daily Mail
>>25188750The Guardian is a far-left propaganda pamphlet masquerading as news. I'm old enough to remember when they ran this shithttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/mar/24/september11.usa2
>>25188510He's the main character of the first quarter of the 20th century. Of course he's /lit/
>>25188510yes but he was also a pseud
>>25188510>was this writer and theorist /lit/? Are you 16?
>>25188754Then why do they show up as red on Shinigami Eyes?
>>25188837I made this meme in opposition to the so called Ukrops Nazis who clearly infest /lit/ with their homosexual fascist ravings. I hope you enjoy it
>>25188510he had done a extensive reading of Hegel's logic of science, so yeah kinda based
What about Stalin?**I know Hitler loved Shakespeare, for some reason.**
>>25188754>far-left propaganda pamphletThe Guardian is establishment liberalism par excellence.
>>25188510How can you be so fucking smart and become reliant on a sadistic paranoiac darwinian freakazoid? I guess when you view everything as necessarily leading to a certain outcome, the people who are best at bureaucratically engineering outcomes get all the power.
>>25188940Stalin unironically loved On the Origin of Species. Makes his support of Lysenkoism genuinely psychopathic
