Volodymyr Yermolenko
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 10 Jul
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Will not be destroying our personality.
How to make suffering not excessive to us, not uh, you know, not destructive to us.
So I think this thinking of having something enough is is uh having something sufficient, sufficient quantities is very, very interesting.
And here um it's interesting when we think about power, just look at the way how I do.
The 20th century ideologies were moving.
For example, if you take the communism, well, it's it's it's it's it's very strange how the the uh in in the Russian communism, in the Russian Bolshevism, in the Leninist thinking, and of uh of course the the the the causes of it are already in Marx and Marxism, but I think that the Leninism and especially Stalinism just put it into to
the extremes.
It's amazing how they passed from the a uh from the very anarchic idea that we we don't need power at all to the idea that we need a dictatorship power.
And this oscillation between the two was very natural for for Leninism.
Because the the thinking was, yeah, of course, the when we will have a society without classes, we we will will not need a state, we will not need state power.
But before that, we need to ensure that one class dominates the proletariat class, dominates all the others.
And for that
We need a dictatorship of the proletariat.
And here we see this very strange evolution of Bolshevism from the extreme left, from anarchism, to the extreme right, to the totalitarianism that was already present in Lenin, but that was accomplished by Stalin, of course.
Why?
Just because it it doesn't have it didn't have initially uh the uh the concept of power which will be sufficient, uh the concept of sufficient power.
It cannot get enough power because it cannot understand what is enough power because it doesn't have a concept of enough power.
And that's I think the the the problem.
And I think it it it it starts from the modern po political thinking.
It starts basically from Machiavelli because one of the problems of Machiavellian thinking is that he asks the question how you get power, but he doesn't ask the question how what should what what do you do with it?
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