Leszek Kolakowski & the anatomy of totalitarianism by Roger Kimball It’s possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with a little dialectic. I have, of course, so worded my proposition as to be right either way.—Marx to Engels, 1857What socialism implies above all is keeping account of everything.—V. I. Lenin, 1917Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point.—Pascal, Pensées Born in Radom, in eastern Poland, in 1927, the philosopher Leszek Kolakowski is closing in on his eightieth year. He has...