Perhaps The Most Widespread Illusion Is That If We Were In Power We Would Behave Very Differently From Those Who Now Hold It -- Whe

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Perhaps the most widespread illusion is that if we were in power we
would behave very differently from those who now hold it -- when, in
truth, in order to get power we would have to become very much like them.
-- (Lenin's fatal mistake, both in theory and in practice.)

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