Kudo to you, for not only reading all the book, but also for debating and berating the class communist.:)
I deserve no congratulations. I was a non-traditional student with a minimum of 10 years on the poor kid, I didn't relent even when he was completely disarmed and humiliated, and I took an extreme amount of pleasure in turning the rest of the class entirely against him and onto my side (the professor, uncommonly, was already on my side). It was a sin for me to do it and even more sinful to enjoy it as much as I did.