[FRIAM] Political tangents

[glen ☣]

It's still politics... but _way_ more interesting:

  Let Them Drink Blood
  https://tni-back-soon.github.io/essays/let-them-drink-blood/index.html

> Alexander Bogdanov, a cofounder of the Bolshevik party and Lenin's one-time rival, was a particularly Thielian figure in the group. In 1905, Bogdanov wrote the science fiction novel Red Star, depicting a communist society on Mars where parabiosis was practiced as a form of mutual aid. Two decades after writing Red Star, Bogdanov founded the State Institute for Haematology and Blood Transfusions. He subjected himself to these transfusions, and died from a botched trial--a fitting metaphor for a revolutionary killed by his own "fanatical and superstitious belief in the miraculous power of their social sciences." 


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☣ glen