/lit/ - Literature

>>19844353
Lenin is absolutely a Great Man in the Carlyle sense of the term. He altered the nature of the world in a way that matches what Napoleon did.

Why should the right read Lenin? I keep hearing people say that right wing people should read him but I’m unsure why that is

Everyone's a fucking coward. On the left and the right. Everyone's a coward or a grifter or both. Everyone talks such a big-ass game about changing the system, about upending things, about righting wrongs and fixing problems, about creating a better world. But all they ever wind up doing is using this talk to sell books or launch podcasts or run for office, and if they actually get elected they just grift and sell out to corporations.

Nobody has any fucking spirit for revolution, REAL revolution. And I know why: because they're all cowards. They're cowards but they're smart cowards, and they realize that to truly change things would create immense destruction, immense bloodshed, and the end of the world as we know it. And none of them have the balls to go through with that. So they'd rather just talk, but not do anything, and rake in money from the gullible Boomers who actually think revolution is right around the corner.

I'm very right-wing but more and more I admire men like Lenin, because at least Lenin wasn't a fucking coward. Lenin wanted to create another world and he fucking did it. He sacked up, took the risk, and altered the course of history. And he's a great man for that reason. Great men don't grift. Great men aren't afraid of upheaval, destruction, and chaos.

It's not impossible to change the world. It's not impossible for a dedicated group of humans to fundamentally alter the course of history.

It's just that, to do it, you usually have to kill a whole lot of people. And as you might imagine this makes most people uncomfortable.

>>18049441
Can Marxist-Leninists agitate for class struggle against tripfags?

I finally got an ereader so here I am /lit/, trying to figure out books I might be interested in.
Anyone have any good, not too biased recommendations regarding Russia's attempt at communism? I'm not interested in the "they lost haha they starved lol" I'm more interested in a quality take on what happened. How the state was envisioned to function, how it ended up in practice. I find it really interesting to imagine something like that happening, such a major shift in policy seems impossible today.