I am flooded with news I don’t even know where to begin first the US and AUS made a deal about their rare earth minerals second Venezuela’s about to go to war and third the government is still in shut down? And to top it all off theres an ai bubble thats about to burst I don’t even know what’s going on anymore half time the world goes back to a semblance of sanity and the next some of the goofiest shit happens I can’t tell if Trump will succeed by some divine miracle or if the incompetence of his own cabinet and himself will derail him

      • Conselheiro@lemmygrad.ml
        13·
        21 hours ago

        He has written similar things, as has Marx, though it’s not an exact quotation. Seems to be a modern paraphrase.

        In the space of a few days we destroyed one of the oldest, most powerful, barbarous and brutal of monarchies. In the space of a few months we passed through a number of stages of collaboration with the bourgeoisie and of shaking off petty-bourgeois illusions, for which other countries have required decades. In the course of a few weeks, having overthrown the bourgeoisie, we crushed its open resistance in civil war.

        https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/07/13/decades-weeks/

        It’s like Marx’s “history repeats itself” quote, which is more known as a paraphrase.

      • -6-6-6-@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        171·
        24 hours ago

        Probably wasn’t originally attributed by Lenin, not that I trust Snopes much. There’s a line from “The Devil” in 1908 by a Dutch guy that reads “There are years, centuries, in which nothing happens, and there are days, like yesterday, into which a whole lifetime is compressed.” Snope at least has that and that would’ve been in Lenin’s life-time.