s a very smart child, and this example proves that Lenin would choose efficiency over righteousness to achieve any outcome he deemed necessary or proper. The thought of a fuzzy father figure that loved all of his people is not a very accurate description of a person that would sacrifice so many in the name of change.
             There really isn't any dispute on how, when, where or why Lenin accepted Marxism, but his "discovery of Marxism was extremely selective; he saw in it only what he wanted to see...He was never able to assimilate the ideas of the liberals, who proclaimed the rule of law, or the 'Economists', who wanted the workers to flourish, or the Western democrats, who put parliamentary government above all else (Volk, 27)." This discriminatory view of other political systems proved to be a critical downfall in the overall philosophy of Leninism. Each system has its pros and cons, but the extreme of one or the other has shown over time that collapse is eminent.
             This radical vision carried over into all aspects of Lenin's view on how a political system is run. His first extreme action was to execute the entire Romanov family. The execution was thought to be carried out solely by the local Soviets, but "from the available evidence it appears that the local So
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