One great photo of Lenin deserves another. Playing chess Bogdanov. Gorky looks on.
Can someone analyse whether Lenin was winning or losing this chess game with Bogdanov in April 1908? https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/who-was-winning Lenin to Gorky was quoted in Lionel Trilling's, "The Liberal Imagination." Hari Kumar wrote: ... @ https://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2004/2004-January/000292.html > "I know of nothing more beautiful than the Appassionata, I could > hear it every day. It is marvellous, unearthly music. Every time I > hear these notes, I think with pride and perhaps childlike naivete, > that it is wonderful what man can accomplish. But I cannot listen to > music often, it affects my nerves. I want to say amiable stupidities > and stroke the heads of the people who can create such beauty in a > filthy hell. But today is not the time to stroke people's heads; > today hands descend to split skulls open, split them open > ruthlessly, although opposition to all violence is our ultimate > ideal-it is a hellishly hard task." > > Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, quoted in Maxim Gorky, Days with Lenin https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/hitler-and-lenin-playing-chess (!!!) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#39627): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/39627 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/116599849/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
