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Ep. 65: John Lenin

The Re-Education with Eli Lake

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Lenin's Intimidativeism

The height of Lenin's radicalism is this, I think I consider revolution largely as a kind of almost counter revolutionary song. It gives the impression of pushback against the system that has already incorporated whatever utopian possibilities the Beatles represented. Or like the lesser known song we talked about earlier, Sexy Sady is this evisceration of the Maharaj and everything like that. But then you can go find other things that Lenin does before then. That's very much like kind of getting in tune with Indian spirituality and things like that.

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