When the officer approached the bookshelves, Lenin kindly offered him a stool, so that the policemen had to start searching from the top, whereas all illegal books were stored on the bottom shelf. By the time the policemen finally approached the bottom shelf, he was too tired and did not find anything illicit.
In order to deceive the guard while writing revolutionary texts from jail, Lenin used milk as ink and bread as an inkwell. When the guard would come in, Lenin would quickly eat the inkwell.
For example, see the epic children’s poem by Alexander Tvardovsky (1938) and the short story by Mikhail Zoshchenko (1940) with the same title, Lenin i Pechnik (Lenin and the Stoveman). The stories are similar: when Lenin is already head of the socialist state, he meets a village stoveman who does not recognize him and is rude to him. After learning that he was in fact Lenin, the man lives in fear; at some point he is brought to Lenin’s house to fix the stove. Lenin treats him as a guest and offers him a cup of tea.
Lenin ventured into the forest to hunt the fox, but after the beautiful animal looked into Lenin’s eyes, he decided not to shoot it.
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Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Autonomedia, 2009), 11.
Federici, Caliban and the Witch, 141.
Michel Foucault, History of Madness, trans. Jean Khalfa and Jonathan Murphy (Routledge, 2006).
Fedrici, Caliban and the Witch, 143. Emphasis in original.
Paul Lafargue, The Right To Be Lazy →.
Federici, Caliban and the Witch, 141–42. Emphasis in original.
Federico Campagna, Technic and Magic: The Reconstruction of Reality (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018), 5–6.
Campagna,Technic and Magic, 10.
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Continuum, 2004), 271.
Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, 271.
Oxana Timofeeva, “Imagine There’s No Void,” Filozofski Vestnik 34, no. 2 (2013) →.
Ronald Boer, Lenin, Religion, and Theology (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), 141.
Vladimir I. Lenin, “Speech at a Plenary Meeting of the Moscow Soviet of Workers’ and Peasants’ Deputies,” February 28, 1921, in Collected Works, vol. 32 (Progress Publishers), 147–59.
Vladimir I. Lenin, Revolution at the Gate: A Selection of Writings from February to October 1917, ed. Slavoj Žižek (Verso, 2002), 16.
Vladimir I. Lenin, Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution, 1905 →.
Boer, Lenin, Religion, and Theology, 139.
Lars T. Lih, “Scotching the Myths About Lenin’s ‘What Is to Be Done,’” Links, October 21, 2010 →.
Lih, “Scotching the Myths About Lenin’s ‘What Is to Be Done.’”
Jodi Dean, “Four Theses on the Comrade,” e-flux journal no. 86 (November 2017) →.
Antonin Artaud, The Theatre and Its Double, trans Mary Caroline Richards (Groove Press, 1958), 31–32.
Georges Bataille, “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, ” in Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927–1939, trans. Allan Stoekl (University of Minnesota Press, 1985), 223 →.
Oxana Timofeeva and Nikolay Oleynikov, “A Pack of Folks,” Rethinking Marxism 28, no. 3–4 (2016), 500–22.