Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted. One man with a gun can control 100 without one. The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. The goal of socialism is communism. The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation. There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses. The final quote is of special interest because of the way it dovetails with the insights of the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky. Although Lenin was a mere nipper of ten when Dostoevsky wrote “The Grand Inquisitor,” (a chapter from Dostoevsky’s masterpiece The Brothers Karamazov, written in 1880), Lenin seemed to steal a page (or several) out of his book.
Oh, never, never can [people] feed themselves without us [the Inquisitors and controllers]! |
RTWT. This gets moved to the Classics.
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