"Lenin is dead.
We may feel for him that sort of forced admiration which strong men—even if deluded, even if wicked—who manage to leave a deep mark on history with their passage, elicit from the masses: Alexander, Julius Caesar, Loyola, Cromwell, Robespierre, Napoleon. But he, even with the best of intentions, was a tyrant, the strangler of the Russian Revolution, and we who could not love him whilst he lived cannot mourn him in death.
Lenin is dead. Long live freedom!"
— Errico Malatesta (February 1924)
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