In March 1921, at the Kronstadt Rising when the Red Army under Tukachevsky massacred the sailors (the former heroes of the revolution), left communists in New York were heard to pronounce the name "Lenin, Schnenin" in order to belittle and mock him and undermine his political influence on the Marxist left. The same was tried with Gramsci when people took issue with the full implications of his "ideological hegemony" doctrine.
It is an extremely infantile gesture but all the same quite devestating. The stature of an individual is severely impacted upon by saying their name in a silly voice.
The correct way to pronounce Lenin as an undergraduate drunk on cheap Theakston and politics "with integrity" is "geuughhhhleeeennnnneeeeennnnnn". You try War Communism rather sitting round in your halls of residence listening to Radiohead and then speak about the "sharpening tools of class conflict"....
Maurice had better calm down and have some more rock cakes before he goes home.
Luncheon meat goes down very well with cherryade.
