When Dialectics Vanishes: Lessons from Lenin, Berdyaev, and St. Francis

The new Adam’s consciousness proceeds from a divine encounter where contradictions dissolve into harmony.

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