Status Updates From Midnight in the Century (En...

not gonna finish this re-read. i love serge and thought with everything fashy going on now would be a good time to revisit his gulag novel, but the romanticism, quietism, and honestly the marxism of the characters aren't resonating.

"In a few years, when all the old people who went through the Tsar's prisons are dead, no one among the seventy million citizens of the Union will be able to imagine what freedom of thought is. People will have to be crazy in order to escape the fixed ideas stamped on their brains by mechanical stencils."

"Let me live long enough to see a single socialist prison dynamited, just one. That's all I ask of the permanent revolution."

‘Once again the Georgian is about to repudiate his past deeds, and he needs victims in order to manoeuvre the Party. We would be quite dangerous if we existed in the political sense of the word.’