“Lenin lived in thrall to the materialist conception of history that Marx evolved from his researches. He could devise no other solution to the social question than to encase it within a series of formulas and pragmatic rules. No thought, no will, no meeting of minds. That would be redolent of the bourgeois and the democrat. No allowance for character or temperament. In society there must be but one temperament, one character, one will, one initiative and one thought. So the brains and hearts of most men are redundant.”