I’m not trying to defend his character, nor every detail of his writings. You do not need to be absolutely beholden to a century old dead guy. Good place to start though. He did believe in revolution and I get it. I understand why and it doesn’t seem wrong except we have the benefit of hindsight. Didn’t work out so well the several times it was tried.

I was mostly arguing that he didn’t want a dictator, it’s just that, unfortunately, it seems his methods lead to that.