NP: Solzhenitsyn

[Michael Bailey]

Mark Kohut
>  But not what happened. (He literally put the blame on one real man and his
>  supporters but I can not remember who. I used to know, but....Clue: Before Lenin.)
>

Gee,, that's tantalizing...
Wikipedia sez:
Instead of blaming Russian conditions, he blamed the teachings of Karl
Marx and Friedrich Engels, arguing Marxism itself is violent. His
conclusion is Communism will always be totalitarian and violent,
wherever it is practiced. There was nothing special in the Russian
conditions which affected the outcome.

I kinda cleave to that outlook with him.  The general case, I think,
is when you build permission for violence into your poli-sci (or
religion) suckage is inevitable...