Not in my house

On the socialist state. On the United States of America. State and revolution. Karl Marx. Two tactics of Social-Democracy in the democratic revolution. What the "Friends of the People" are and how they fight the Social-Democrats. Materialism and empirio-criticism. What is to be done? Indeed. What is to be done? Cataloging along. Humming. Passing 600 titles and heading higher. I neared the end of yet another shelf of books and these eight titles were at the far right. (No ironic pun intended.) Selected works of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. Lenin. Even some of the titles are as ponderous as Nietzsche's stuff. What the hell is "empirio-criticism" anyway? I stopped cataloging before I added them to my on-line catalog. I wanted to ponder. That and Library Thing is going really, really slow right now. There may be more Lenin on other shelves. I'm not sure. When I put these on line, will the possession of them raise red flags in some basement of some bureau somewhere? Probably not. Leninism has been pretty thoroughly discredited. It's not like I have the Koran or anything like that. Oh, wait. I do have at least one copy of the Koran. Like Lenin and Nietzsche, I haven't read it either. That has to count for something. The preponderance of books in My Library even remotely associated with Russia, or the Soviet Union, or former republics of the Soviet Union has been trying. With all the different transliteration schemes, I have been encountering scary numbers of split author files. All split files are scary. They just ain't pretty. Since the catalog is for me, I have decided to go with the Library of Congress transliteration tables. It's safe. It's comfy. It's like home. I try to catch and fix things as I add them, but am sure I miss some. Future database maintenance is a certainty. Something to do on a rainy day. In Oregon? Oh, and I'm just blowing off all diacritics. I don't need 'em.