I'm very jaded by waxing poetic about literary flourishes and grand statements by communists who've mass murdered anarchists. How do you put aside the records of their actions long enough to take that political fluff text seriously? It helps to understand how easily people of the time thinking themselves blessed by literary wisdom were so easily put to institutions and tasks of murder. Do you need a critical reader edition that contrasts the written statements with the historical dictator's actual *material* (you weirdos like that word) actions on the adjacent reference page? And if so, to what end aside analyzing dimensions of propaganda?

It is honestly a bit worrying to me. It shows a vulnerability to sentiment tied to throwaway lines that were penned as a means to power and just as easily discarded. Which is the shape of now.