It is evident that completely untrammelled initiatives can lead to a sort of madness.
a hallucinating collective catechism which resounds from one end of China to the other
He later wrote that he often had fulgurating intuitions, akin to a dazzling bolt of lightning in which one simultaneously sees nothing and sees everything
they lack devotion to the idea of revolutionary Marxism. Though that phrase has always struck me as a pleonasm—for me it was always a given that any Marxism would have to be revolutionary.
This caution remains especially salutary today, against the facile chorus of those on the Left who have suddenly discovered ‘capitalism’ or ‘fascism’ in the USSR.
