Influenced by his travels in Pyongyang and Hanoi, Cleaver had developed a geeky fascination with the minutiae of Marxist-Leninist theory, filling up audiocassettes with his rambling thoughts about the First International and Trotskyite revisionism. The discussions he led were thus rife with terms like dialectical materialism and bourgeois nationalism, to the befuddlement of Holder and Kerkow. The couple had never imagined that the revolution could be so deathly dull.