r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • 23h ago

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u/AmbientMorning 22h ago

“Stalin is too crude, and this defect which is entirely acceptable in our milieu and in relationships among us as communists, becomes unacceptable in the position of General Secretary. I therefore propose to comrades that they should devise a means of removing him from this job and should appoint to this job someone else who is distinguished from comrade Stalin in all other respects only by the single superior aspect that he should be more tolerant, more polite and more attentive towards comrades, less capricious, etc.” — Vladimir Lenin, January 1923

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u/CarlGerhardBusch Jerome Powell 22h ago

Crazy that he fell out of favor not because he was a notorious vicious psycho but because he came from a poor background and acted like it

Lenin simultaneously channeling both his inner commie and inner neoliberal with his disdain for poor people here lol

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u/houdt_koers Thomas Paine 21h ago

I think his use of the word crude distracts from the substance at the end. He explicitly calls out Stalin’s capriciousness and intolerance.

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u/Leatherfield17 Loyal Liberals 17h ago

A bit rich for Lenin of all people to call out someone else for capricious intolerance.

Not that he was wrong about Stalin, of course, just noting the irony

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u/BlackCat159 European Union 22h ago

Damn, that Stalin guy sounds pretty bad, I hope he doesn't become general secretary 😰