Lenin was a Cat Person

“What particularly distinguishes him is his sense of the political moment, of fracture and traction. To his comrade Lunacharsky, he ‘raise[s] opportunism to the level of genius, by which I mean the kind of opportunism which can seize on the precise moment and which always knows how to exploit it for the unvarying objective of The Revolution’. 

Not that Lenin never makes mistakes. He has, however, an acutely developed sense of when and where to push, how, and how hard.”