Originally Posted by Basanos (Post 3582432)

Lenin said: During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.

Originally Posted by aussenseiter (Post 3582577)

Do you consider yourself to be vulgar?

Originally Posted by Basanos (Post 3582599)

Like, the common person or a person with poor social graces?

Bit of both I guess

Originally Posted by aussenseiter (Post 3582604)

Lenin wouldn't like you. :cool: