No.160220
I'm on the fence about whether I even believe that a successful revolutionary with what current capitalist states might pathologize as "mental disorders" really has a mental disorder. The social structure of these reactionary, capitalist, imperialist, rentierist societies is such that everything "outside" is pathologized, weird, abnormal. The crimes of workers are prosecuted because they are criminals, the crimes of capitalists/the state are ignored because they are "out of the jurisdiction" of "law enforcement."
The leaders are a gang of genocidal global pedophiles who nevertheless are afforded full control of militaries, police, agencies, etc. Are they insane? If so, why do "sane" ordinary people not push back? Why does everything beneath them in the hierarchy operate in the service of these supposedly insane leaders? And why are revolutionary behaviors and character traits endlessly pathologized as weird, or foolish, or violent when the entire existing social structure is a tribute to the most disgusting violence of all?
I go back and forth on the character of Lenin, but I don't believe it's useful to retroactively diagnose him with a mental disorder.