VEN (THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS) — Ironically, did the other Vladimir in 1901, unwittingly predict the 21st-Century MSM fake news propaganda machine, #NeverTrumpers, and the repressive, politically correct, totalitarian, alt-left tail-wagging-dog Progressive Establishment.
In a country ruled by an autocracy, with a completely enslaved press, in a period of desperate political reaction in which even the tiniest outgrowth of political discontent and protest is persecuted, the theory of revolutionary Marxism suddenly forced its way into the censored literature before the government realised what had happened and the unwieldy army of censors and gendarmes discovered the new enemy and flung itself upon him.
Lenin, What Is To Be Done?, “Criticism in Russia” (1901)
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