Starting to get that feeling in the first 26 pages. It’s great and have wanted to read it for a while now. But wondering what the take is here on it overall.
The line he literally wrote about the population size of Russia being unsuitable for socialism is like verbatim RW criticism used today and typically repeated when saying that it while it may work in small European counties it won’t here.
Need also to brush up on the Russian Revolution, having only read some of John Reed’s account.
My high school reading list got me to swallow the first book completely. Took until the 2nd book to realize he was a raving lunatic and I was reading a street preacher rant. Still believed too much of it for a long time