Lenin’s Bolsheviks followed in this fashion, radicalised by their experience at universities, not factories. The Russian revolutionaries were so bourgeois that, as Daniel Kalder observed in Dictator Literature: »Only one solitary worker ever sat on the executive board of Lenin’s party, and he turned out to be a police spy.«
Ed West, Why the rich are revolting https://unherd.com/2020/06/why-the-rich-are-revolting/











