It embraced humanity in general but he seems to have had little love for, or even interest in, humanity in particular. (14)īut his humanitarianism was a very abstract passion. The effect of the Great War was enormously to increase the size, and therefore the destructive capacity and propensity to oppress, of the state. The purer the religion, the more dangerous. The men he really feared and hated, and later persecuted, were the saints. On the contrary, Lenin had no real feelings about corrupt priests, because they were easily beaten. Unlike Marx, who despised it and treated it as marginal, Lenin saw it as a powerful and ubiquitous enemy.… He was not just anti-clerical like Stalin, who disliked priests because they were corrupt. Lenin … was from the first category.… Religion was important to him, in the sense that he hated it. Men who carry through political revolutions seem to be of two main types, the clerical and the romantic. John Witherspoon Great Quotes By: PAUL JOHNSON From Modern Times:
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