I read Lenin as well for my Russian history course. Marx is verbose idiocy. Lenin is insane ranting. For example, his assertion that any literate person can do bookkeeping, and ergo, run an enterprise.
Regards, Ivan
After the Berlin Wall fell, I offered the Russians $1,000 for Lenin's corpse but never got a reply.
I had planned to wire his jaw so it would move. Then dress him in red, white and blue and nail him up on my cupola. I'd wire him so when I raised the flag in the morning, he'd belt out a rousing chorus of "God Bless America."
Ah yes, What Is To be Done? Second only to Mein Kampf in terms of crazed, nonsensical ravings. I got to read both of them in a class called "The Philosophic Roots of European fascism." Awesome class. The professor was basically a right-leaning libertarian. The class basically consisted of reading things like Hegel, Marx, Lenin and Hitler for homework and then going to class and having the professor rip their ideas to shreds. It was glorious. Because of the class I can now destroy anyone who tries to ague that Fascism is on the right side of the political spectrum (and therefore ideologically closer to the Republican party than the Dumbocraps). In short, Fascism was Communism without any ambitions to spark a global workers revolution.