Majnun

Hi Leo. First time poster here. While I entirely understand where you are coming from, and agree with you, I would still like to encourage you to open your mind to the possibility that there's much more nuance and love to Lenin than is usually understood across the political spectrum. I know that you're already superhumanly open minded, but having blind spots is just a part of playing the game of being human. If it's okay, I'd like to recommend to you a book about Lenin. It's called "Revolution at the Gates: Selected Writings of Lenin from 1917" by Slavoj Žižek. It entirely changed my view of the man, when I read it soon after it first came out. Anyway, if I can add some of my thoughts to the Charlie Kirk issue - this whole situation, together with how the Right is weaponizing it against the progressives, is oddly similar to the political situation in late 1920s and early 1930s Germany. I have this foreboding feeling that soon there's going to be a great tragedy on a scale of the Reichstag fire, that's going to be used to mass persecute all kinds of liberals and leftists. Reichstag fire itself was used as a pretext to create first concentration camps (such as Dachau) and throw all democrats, socialists and communists there. It doesn't really affect me as much as it does for you (I live in the EU, and my personal worries have more to do with the ongoing war in Ukraine), but I still deeply feel for all of you living across the ocean. As always, solidarity is all we have in situations like these.