# Affirmed:Lenin really is the tits **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [May 2, 2010, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/affirmed-lenin-really-is-the-tits/538021 "2010-05-02T12:42:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![adhay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@adhay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhay)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/affirmed-lenin-really-is-the-tits/538021/261 "2010-05-19T21:10:35Z")
> [@begbert2](#): > > You’re right, I’m _not_ interested in reading dated communist screed … … about which in Post #9 I said… > [@adhay](#): > > … I am saying that his analysis of global corporate capitalism/imperialism is spot on. You find something specific in my cite you’d like to dispute, let me know. Otherwise, check it at the door. I am done with you. ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/affirmed-lenin-really-is-the-tits/538021/262 "2010-05-19T21:24:56Z")
> [@adhay](#): > > … about which in Post #9 I said… I am done with you. If you think I care one whit about whether you are “done with me”, or anything else about how you wish to arbitrarily limit discussion in this thread for that matter, then you haven’t been paying attention. Nonetheless, feel free to refuse to reply to me; I will take that as the concession of my correctness that such behavior usually implies. After all, it’s what you just _did_ - you’re only focussing on the first ten words of my post to avoid having to admit that the _rest_ of that post blows your position to tiny shreds, taking the post that _you_ selected as representative of Lenin’s correctness and state of being ‘on point’, and demonstrating that it is tremendously _off_ point. Which by extension based on _your_ selection of it as representative, demonstrates fairly solidly that either the entire _document_ is off point (that is, ‘dated communist screed’), or if it’s _not_, then it proves indubatibly that you wouldn’t know the good parts of it if there _were_ any, because if they existed you sure didn’t select them. Which is to say, with your _help_, I have actually _proved_ that there is no point in reading the document in a discussion with you - either it’s crap, or you wouldn’t know if it weren’t and thus couldn’t discuss it anyway. QED, as it were. ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/affirmed-lenin-really-is-the-tits/538021/263 "2010-05-19T23:20:00Z")
Oh by the way, **adhay** , I just came back and reread your arbitrary powerless mandate, and realized that I didn’t even disobey it! Post #9 said that if I should find something specific in your cite I’d like to dispute, I should let you know. And this is the specific post I was disputing: > [@adhay](#): > > Well, here’s something I actually quoted from Imperialism in an early post. So, the thing I was disputing _was_ something specific from Imperialism - you said so yourself. So by your own words you have no cause for complaint. Even when quoting your own posts, reading comprehension matters - though errors on that front are not nearly as bad for your position as your misinterpretations of Lenin. It would be one thing if Lenin actually _was_ the tits, and had presciently predicted all of modern society and economics 94 years in advance, and we were all disregarding him solely for his poor interpersonal habits. But the situation is that Lenin was just asserting imagined worst cases about capitalism in order to promote his preferred alternative communism, and any forecasting ability you see is in your eyes only, fueled by and based on biased misreadings of the text itself. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/affirmed-lenin-really-is-the-tits/538021.md?page=13)