History is not a continuum or a flow of time; it is a sequence of events made by people. The present and the future are being shaped by different people than those of Lenin’s country or his generation. But the same problems that confronted Lenin are continually arising, although in somewhat different form now than then. His solutions to these problems are thus so relevant that they cry out for our attention and emulation.
“One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.”
— Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms (via philosophybits)
