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Anonymous Thu Sep 3 17:00:23 2015 No.7067887 [Reply] [Original]

Is there any evidence to point out Lenin was different than most people? I'm reading his bio and his intellectual feats are almost unsettling, how could a single person be so smart, so charismatic and dedicated? Is Lenin the smartest men to have ever lived?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 3 17:02:23 2015 No.7067896 File: 60 KB, 804x1160, that's_right_bitches.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] If you think anyone other than Ezra Pound was the smartest man to ever live, you're a pleb.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 3 17:05:06 2015 No.7067907 He was standing on the shoulders of giants

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 3 17:06:00 2015 No.7067912 >>7067887 >Is Lenin the smartest men to have ever lived? lol no

>>	khaazam Thu Sep 3 17:09:27 2015 No.7067924 >>7067887 lel >why is my totalitarian dictator held as the most intelligent man on earth in a biography written about him using opinions and propaganda bolstered by the very people he subjugated as a source material?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 3 17:11:23 2015 No.7067935 >>7067924 Lenin had good intentions when he went into power. Whether he held them for long is up for debate.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 3 17:18:37 2015 No.7067965 >>7067924 Which theorist of totalitarianism includes Lenin as a totalitarian dictator? Arendt confines it to the stalin era. (btw totalitarianism as a model has kinda been left behind since a few decades)

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 3 17:20:23 2015 No.7067974 >>7067887 Nevermind the American highschool false consciousness tools. You want to know how Lenin came to be such an outstanding person? Then watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2cs8QLnxlU

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 3 17:20:30 2015 No.7067976 >>7067887 Have you ever read any of his actual writings ? He really wasn't all that smart. Maybe slightly smarter than Hitler, but not by much.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 3 17:24:45 2015 No.7067992 >>7067896 >implying gauss wasn't >>7067924 >implying he wasn't a genius according to pretty much any historian >>7067935 >implying he didn't betray the revolution by taking the power away from the soviets

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 3 17:29:11 2015 No.7068009 >>7067924 rofl namefag refrain from posting your opinion on subjects you are obviously oblivious about

>>	khaazam Thu Sep 3 17:40:46 2015 No.7068063 >>7068009 get fukt commie

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 4 05:56:51 2015 No.7070031 >>7067887 >different than fuck you

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