>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
>>25188646>>25188754I wish braindead poltards would stay in their containment board instead of littering every board
>>25188754>far-leftLol. Words don't mean anything anymore.
>actually liking Roman literatureNo wonder nothing good ever came from the Soviets.
>>25189489Never said roman he said latin
>>25189489Roman poetry is the best the world ever produced though
>>25189500Read the next sentence: >He read Virgil, Ovid, Horace and Juvenal in the original, as well as Roman senatorial orations.>>25189507The Romans were a bunch of barbarians who believed that the greatest virtue was not having a personality. The first worthwhile work written in Latin is from 1202.
>>25189522That's some really powerful seething, tell me they're problematic next and that they're dead white men who couldn't dance
>>25189522>Read the next sentence:well the point I was trying to make to you and I didnt say anything about the romans is that roman literature is summarized in every translation they try to convey the authors writing not the actual text, latin is closer to chinese than english, each word has about 150 different endings, in english theres maybe 3 different endings for a word at most
>>25189526Problematic? They were just brutish and small minded. It's rather telling that actual great works in their language didn't appear until they were gone for nearly a millennium. >>25189540> latin is closer to chinese than english, each word has about 150 different endingsNow that's quite the linguistic claim.
>>25189540Chinese has a much much simpler grammar than English, Latin has a far nore complex grammar than English. You might say Latin grammar is more like Arabic than English grammar, but certainly not more like Chinese than English grammar
>>25189546>it's telling that dead white men can't write good and it took folks with soul to do it>telling on theyselves!
>>25189552Yes. Those "folks with soul" were other dead white men if that means anything to you.
>>25188646>Demagogues know they have to look cleverTrump doesn't
>>25189556It comes out to the same argument
>>25189594Some cultures might just be inferior to others, and there's many reasons to see the Romans as inferior to most.
>>25189601The primary one being you have few, possibly zero, Roman poets in Latin and the paucity of your brain stings your pride
>>25189605Because there's so much beauty in the way Virgil rhapsodizes about entrails and listening to your parents.
>>25189601You dont think virgil is cool? list your ten least favorite authors
>>25189612tell me what the different genders in latin represent?
>>25189621Men, women, and things.
>>25188510Marx wrote in latin as well, its really good writing too
>>25189489The language has zero in common with english, just shut up moron
>>25189650>uses the same alphabet>50% of its words are derived from Latin>The language has zero in common with english
>>25189660Who made you a fucking expert moron go look at the grammer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_grammar
