>>1298121>over actually reading a fucking book.yeah and you've never read pic related or wikipedia lol
it's a great audiobook tbqh:
https://youtu.be/ccASsjhhgP8>And even though V. I. Lenin, at the end of 1917, in order to establish "strictly revolutionary order," demanded "merciless suppression of attempts at anarchy on the part of drunkards, hooligans,
counterrevolutionaries, and other persons" — in other words, foresaw that drunkards and hooligans
represented the principal danger to the October Revolution, with counterrevolutionaries somewhere
back in third place — he nonetheless put the problem more broadly. In his essay "How to Organize
the Competition" (January 7 and 10, 1918), V. I. Lenin proclaimed the common, united purpose of
"purging the Russian land of all kinds of harmful insects." And under the term insects he included
not only all class enemies but also "workers malingering at their work" — for example, the typesetters
of the Petrograd Party printing shops. (That is what time does. It is difficult for us nowadays to
understand how workers who had just become dictators were immediately inclined to malinger at
work they were doing for themselves.) And then again: "In what block of a big city, in what factory,
in what village . . . are there not . . . saboteurs who call themselves intellectuals?" True, the forms of
insect-purging which Lenin conceived of in this essay were most varied: in some places they would
be placed under arrest, in other places set to cleaning latrines; in some, "after having served then-
time in punishment cells, they would be handed yellow tickets"; in others, parasites would be shot;
elsewhere you could take your pick of imprisonment "or punishment at forced labor of the hardest
kind." Even though he perceived and suggested the basic directions punishment should take,
Vladimir Ilyich proposed that "communes and communities" should compete to find the best
methods of purging.
