ABSTRACT
In his novel "Darkness at Noon," Arthur Koestler engages intensely with the consequences set out in Lenin's understanding of politics. The "hero" of the novel, Rubashov, a mixture of Bukharin and Kamenev, is so bound up with this logic that, in the end, he accepts his own death sentence. He knows that he is "innocent" in the sense of a "bourgeois" concept of law, in the sense of "subjectivism." And yet he knows that he must be sacrificed for "objective" reasons.
