if only we do what lenin and lenin was unknown to outside russian exiles. through the socialist movement and. then suddenly, you know, he's the leading inspirational figure. lenin, trotsky ironically enough, given what happens to trotsky. and so if only we can be as disciplined as they, we can bend history to our will. and that something i refer to as linda voss temptation and that generations on the left, certainly the american communist party, but also in the various splinters from communist party, trotsky is later maoist and so forth. succumb to that same temptation and that's that's part of the tragedy i'm describing because over and over and over again it's proved sterile a dead end self isolating and a very different tradition than that and hutchinson to william lloyd garrison to eugene debs tradition which to me is the real inspiration. but i think let me just say a few words and by way of closing leninism was about power. but there was a dream of communism that was lot bigger than leninism. that was a world beyond capitalism, without inequality, wit

but his standard procedure for radical leftist from the jacobins in the french revolution to lenin and mao in the 20th century, radicals always to erase past and their endless quest, to fundamentally transform. chairman mao, the cultural revolution in the great leap forward, attacking the faults of old customs, old culture, old habits and, old ideas, tens of millions of chinese perished along the way in the soviet union. they rewrote their history so often. it became a standing joke. they said the only thing that certain is the future. it's the past that keeps on changing. so history matters because it largely defines our culture. it tells us who we are, where we came, how we got here, and more importantly, what were the what were the beliefs, the values that inspired and and sustained ancestors on their journeys? because it's those values, that same values today that inspire and guide us on our own journeys into the future. so when the radicals erase history really trying to erase and cancel our values, particularly religious values. that's why george orwell said who controls the past

lenin, he remarked in the same volume that when compared with those superb fragments of a bold and majestic architecture which europe, syria, greece and other regions present to travelers, the ruins jamestown are humble and, inconsiderable, but they were nonetheless the cradle of virginia girardin also may have originated the rumor that the original fort site had eroded into the river a lamentation of loss that would resonate powerfully with 90 teens and early 20th century virginians and not be disproved until 1994, when a team archeologists headed by bill kelso did uncover the first of three palisade walls belonging to the original triangular james for. so when jihadi john's article, he observed that many yards of the palisade erected by the first settlers were still visible. an 150 pieces came off the shore oh, that was actually rewind. sorry, that was just me gesticulating wildly. i'll try to refrain. had jihad been local to the area, he might have been better prepared to interpret what he saw as what it probably was the decaying remains of old. the last reference to a palisade id fort a

i've read mao tse-tung, i've read, i've read karl marx, i've read lenin.derstanding, having some situational understanding about the country for which we are here to defend. general, there might not be a moment, i think, where the public got to see sort of the curiosity that drives this, this general and the decency and, and the fealty to the constitution in practice. and what is a quirk only of this political moment is that he was attacked for that. i think the maga movement revealed itself in its reaction to that. they didn't like what they heard. >> no, they did not. and it's sad because he's a great american patriot. he's a great scholar and statesman. he understands the difference. between loyalty to a person versus loyalty to the constitution. and he understands, you know, to have be intellectually curious to how soldiers need to be thinking about things like that, to be exposed to other, other theories, theories. that doesn't necessarily mean that they embrace it, but they certainly should understand that. and they should be students of history. the