• loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.ml
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      6 months ago

      He was not wealthy or bourgeois. He was a useful idealist for the bourgeois as the text explains. Your misconception of him is encapsulated well in this:

      if the reactionaries didn’t get into his mansion first

      He was merked at Birla House, which was owned by the industrialist Ghanshyamdas Birla, where he was a frequent guest. During his last and final stint there he had been staying for about 150 days.