Word: necessitarian
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...Lenin, after trying various signatures such as "Meyer" and "Petroff," became the "Old Man." Lenin's organizing ability, implacable common sense and long view gradually put him in control of the majority (Bolsheviks) in the organization. His letters show that he was not an opportunist but a confessed "necessitarian." "I know, I know it very well, I never forget this, but that is the tragedy (I promise you 'tragedy' is not too strong a word!) of our position; that we have to act in such a way . . . after all we are not creating 'human material...
...same time characteristically the little old pamphleteer who had spent so much of his exile dreaming and scribbling in the World's libraries pens a humble request to a librarian to be allowed to take out reference books after hours: "I would return them by the morning." Realist, necessitarian to the last, he ends the final letter with the same old plea for common sense: "You have been carried away by your thoughts...
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