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SO CLOSE TO FINISHING THIS GIGANTIC BRICK

Julius Martov, why didn't you do more to bolster the Mensheviks? Why didn't you fucking stand up during the Congress to publicly denounce the right-wing idiots in your party who cost the Mensheviks their power, and who ultimately cost Russia any chance at an authentic and amazing experience in socialism?

And Lenin, please find your goddamn chill.

Okay, I did not realize how problematic Leninism was until I read this. Menshevik Julius Martov emerges as a much preferable leader of the Russian socialist movement than his Bolshevik colleague.