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Thomas Sowell: The tyranny of visions: "Visions are powerful things. For some people, visions make facts unnecessary and can even over-ride facts to the contrary.
In the years leading up to the Bolshevik revolution in Russia, Lenin developed a whole vision of the world of the past, the present, and the future. Although he spoke in the name of the workers, he never bothered to ask what actual flesh-and-blood workers thought. In his years of exile before returning to lead a revolution, he never bothered to go where workers lived or worked."