The End of Dialectics: St. Francis's Divine Encounter and the Unity of All Things

When consciousness is mended by divine vision, contradictions are swallowed up into harmony.

When Bertrand Russell met Lenin in 1920, they had an hour-long talk. He said he was much less impressed with Lenin than he thought he would be. Lenin emphasized again and again that there could be nothing wrong in Marx. By the end, he shared with Russel his ideas of pitting one population group against the other and started laughing.

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