LENIN AS PHILOSOPHER
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taries upon commentaries upon texts which have become Scripture
continue to grow into a body of official state philosophy. Inevitably,
where there
is
orthodoxy there must be heresy. And where the state
enforces the orthodoxy, inevitably there must be the burning of here–
tical writings and autos da
f.e
of the heretics. Not for nothing does
purge suggest purification.
