Vejas Liulevicius

And that in part had to do with the lessening grip of religious ideas on intellectual elites. more generally, processes of secularization, not total secularization, but processes of secularization in Western industrial societies.

And that in part had to do with the lessening grip of religious ideas on intellectual elites. more generally, processes of secularization, not total secularization, but processes of secularization in Western industrial societies.

And that in part had to do with the lessening grip of religious ideas on intellectual elites. more generally, processes of secularization, not total secularization, but processes of secularization in Western industrial societies.

And the sense that here's a doctrine that will allow escape from wars brought on by capitalist competition, poverty and economic cycles and depressions brought on by capitalist competition, the inequalities of societies that remain hierarchical and class-based. And this claim to being cutting-edge science, I think, allows people like Lenin to derive immense confidence in

And the sense that here's a doctrine that will allow escape from wars brought on by capitalist competition, poverty and economic cycles and depressions brought on by capitalist competition, the inequalities of societies that remain hierarchical and class-based. And this claim to being cutting-edge science, I think, allows people like Lenin to derive immense confidence in

And the sense that here's a doctrine that will allow escape from wars brought on by capitalist competition, poverty and economic cycles and depressions brought on by capitalist competition, the inequalities of societies that remain hierarchical and class-based. And this claim to being cutting-edge science, I think, allows people like Lenin to derive immense confidence in

in the prescription that they have for the future. And that paradoxically, the confidence that you have in broad strokes, the right set of answers for how to get to the future also allows you to take huge liberties with the tactics and the strategies that you follow as long as your ultimate goal remains the one sketched by this master plan.

in the prescription that they have for the future. And that paradoxically, the confidence that you have in broad strokes, the right set of answers for how to get to the future also allows you to take huge liberties with the tactics and the strategies that you follow as long as your ultimate goal remains the one sketched by this master plan.

in the prescription that they have for the future. And that paradoxically, the confidence that you have in broad strokes, the right set of answers for how to get to the future also allows you to take huge liberties with the tactics and the strategies that you follow as long as your ultimate goal remains the one sketched by this master plan.

So ultimately, some of the predictions of someone like Lenin, that once society has reached that stage of the dictatorship of the proletariat, the notion that Governments will essentially be able to run themselves. And the model he had in mind, oddly enough, was Swiss post offices.

So ultimately, some of the predictions of someone like Lenin, that once society has reached that stage of the dictatorship of the proletariat, the notion that Governments will essentially be able to run themselves. And the model he had in mind, oddly enough, was Swiss post offices.

So ultimately, some of the predictions of someone like Lenin, that once society has reached that stage of the dictatorship of the proletariat, the notion that Governments will essentially be able to run themselves. And the model he had in mind, oddly enough, was Swiss post offices.

Being in Swiss exile must have impressed him so much with the orderliness and the sheer discipline and rationality of a Swiss post office. And he thought... Why can't you organize governments like this where you don't need political leaders? You don't need grand visions. You have procedures.

Being in Swiss exile must have impressed him so much with the orderliness and the sheer discipline and rationality of a Swiss post office. And he thought... Why can't you organize governments like this where you don't need political leaders? You don't need grand visions. You have procedures.

Being in Swiss exile must have impressed him so much with the orderliness and the sheer discipline and rationality of a Swiss post office. And he thought... Why can't you organize governments like this where you don't need political leaders? You don't need grand visions. You have procedures.

You have bureaucracy, which does its job in a way that's not alienating, but simply produces the greatest good. You know, it... When you think of the experiences with the bureaucracy in the 20th century, one's hair stands on end to have the comparative naivete on display with a prediction like that.

You have bureaucracy, which does its job in a way that's not alienating, but simply produces the greatest good. You know, it... When you think of the experiences with the bureaucracy in the 20th century, one's hair stands on end to have the comparative naivete on display with a prediction like that.

You have bureaucracy, which does its job in a way that's not alienating, but simply produces the greatest good. You know, it... When you think of the experiences with the bureaucracy in the 20th century, one's hair stands on end to have the comparative naivete on display with a prediction like that.

But it derives from that confidence that it's all going to be okay because we understand, we have the key, we have the plan to how to arrive at this final configuration of humanity. Yeah.

But it derives from that confidence that it's all going to be okay because we understand, we have the key, we have the plan to how to arrive at this final configuration of humanity. Yeah.