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No, they wouldn't. I've waded through some of each, Stalin and Lenin, and it was like watching the movie Titanic! You know how the story will end. I read Che Guevara's Africa journals and was amazed by his full throated racism, but eventually saw variations of it in most doctrinaire Soviet writing. Lenin surprised me with his hatred of everything outside his orbit. I even took time to read Ghadaffi's Green Book and Mao's Red Book, and all I learned was that I must have a lot of determination to finish reading that shit. When you know that what they were pushing ended with the deaths of over 100,000,000 people, what good can come from their bilge? For reasons I don't understand, people still brag about being trained Marxists, but try to find someone bragging about being a trained Nazi or Fascist, or who really enjoys Mein Kampf. They are scarce.

And don't get me started about the ghost written books by candidates during campaign season. Haven't read one; won't read one.

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