That turned out well, didn't it...

Posted on: February 24, 2017 at 15:16:44 CT

Lenin, the brilliantly subversive mind he was, realized there was no other choice for his Bolsheviks, but to rule Russia via tyranny, and he embraced this fact. He stated, “It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.” Lenin defined dictatorship as, “power that is limited by nothing, no laws, that is restrained by absolutely no rules, that rests directly on coercion,” states Pipes. Lenin believed in the use of unlimited power to achieve his revolutionary goals, where some would be completely annihilated to remove their resistance and also provide a lesson for others. He claimed morality was for the birds, claiming, “There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.”