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‘70th Anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution’ by Miguel Ángel Nin

José Martí National Library, Havana, Cuba

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Via In Defense of Communism

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Lenin: Thinker, fighter

George Plekhanov did not have Lenin in mind when he wrote his remarkable essay on “The Role of the Individual in History.” But the following paragraphs describe Lenin more than anybody else you can think of

 By Vince Copeland

Lenin would have been the first to admit — and even proclaim — that he, too, was a continuer, especially of Karl Marx and even of Plekhanov himself in that thinker’s earlier period.

In Lenin we have an example of a person who, although also a “continuer,” actually did clearly begin not one, but several, very important aspects of the struggle for the inevitable socialist future of humanity. 

Let us review the main “beginnings” that he was personally responsible for.

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April 22, 1870: Birthday of V.I. Lenin, founder of the Bolshevik Party, leader of Russia's socialist revolution and the Soviet Union, great teacher of the world's workers and oppressed.

“People have always been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be until they have learnt to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises. Champions of reforms and improvements will always be fooled by the defenders of the old order until they realise that every old institution, how ever barbarous and rotten it may appear to be, is kept going by the forces of certain ruling classes. And there is only one way of smashing the resistance of those classes, and that is to find, in the very society which surrounds us, the forces which can—and, owing to their social position, must—constitute the power capable of sweeping away the old and creating the new, and to enlighten and organise those forces for the struggle.”

- V.I. Lenin, "The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism"

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In Lugansk, LPR, communists brought flowers to Lenin's monument. Happy birthday, Ilyich! April 22, 2020

Via Anna Brekhova

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Lenin 150: What he can teach us about this historic moment

By Greg Butterfield

What is it that we most need from Lenin right now — amidst a global pandemic, rapid economic and climate collapse, fascist demonstrations encouraged by a sitting U.S. president, the precipitous end of the Bernie Sanders election campaign?

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Alexandra Kollontai: When Lenin proclaimed Soviet power

Alexandra Kollontai was a member of the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party and one of the organizers of the Great October Socialist Revolution in 1917. She was a leading Marxist theorist on women’s liberation and sexual emancipation. Kollontai was also the first woman in history to hold a cabinet-level position as Commissar for Social Welfare in the first Soviet government.

If I were asked what was the greatest, the most memorable moment of my life, I would answer without any hesitation: it was when Soviet power was proclaimed.

Nothing could compare to the pride and joy that filled us as we heard pronounced from the tribune of the Second Congress of Soviets at Smolny the simple and impressive words of the historic resolution:

“All power has passed to the Soviets of Workers’, Soldiers’ and Peasants’ Deputies!”

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Langston Hughes: Two poems about Lenin

The great African American poet and Harlem Renaissance figure, Langston Hughes, wrote two poems about V.I. Lenin in the 1930s. They reflect the tremendous spirit of hope that the Russian Revolution breathed into the national liberation struggles of Black people in the U.S. and all oppressed peoples around the world.