On April 22, 1870, Lenin was born into a world dominated by capital. One hundred and fifty-five years later, his revolutionary legacy remains a living force in the global proletariat.
Lenin was not just a leader, he was Marxism in motion. He unveiled imperialism as capitalism’s highest stage: a world system of exploitation and war.
He showed that the bourgeois state cannot be reformed, it must be smashed and replaced by the dictatorship of the proletariat, led by a vanguard rooted in the working class.
Leninism is not a relic, it is the science of revolution in the age of imperialism. It is the method by which the oppressed transform the world.
Lenin lived. Lenin lives. Lenin will live—wherever workers rise against capital.
Long live Leninism! Down with imperialism! Power to the proletariat!
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Lenin was not just a leader, he was Marxism in motion. He unveiled imperialism as capitalism’s highest stage: a world system of exploitation and war.
He showed that the bourgeois state cannot be reformed, it must be smashed and replaced by the dictatorship of the proletariat, led by a vanguard rooted in the working class.
Leninism is not a relic, it is the science of revolution in the age of imperialism. It is the method by which the oppressed transform the world.
Lenin lived. Lenin lives. Lenin will live—wherever workers rise against capital.
Long live Leninism! Down with imperialism! Power to the proletariat!
@Communism
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Lenin walks around the world.
Frontiers cannot bar him.
Neither barracks nor barricades impede.
Nor does barbed wire scar him.
Lenin walks around the world.
Black, brown, and white receive him.
Language is no barrier.
The strangest tongues believe him.
Lenin walks around the world.
The sun sets like a scar.
Between the darkness and the dawn
There rises a red star.
(Langston Hughes)
Frontiers cannot bar him.
Neither barracks nor barricades impede.
Nor does barbed wire scar him.
Lenin walks around the world.
Black, brown, and white receive him.
Language is no barrier.
The strangest tongues believe him.
Lenin walks around the world.
The sun sets like a scar.
Between the darkness and the dawn
There rises a red star.
(Langston Hughes)
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Another reason why the omnipotence of “wealth” is more certain in a democratic republic is that it does not depend on defects in the political machinery or on the faulty political shell of capitalism. A democratic republic is the best possible political shell for capitalism, and, therefore, once capital has gained possession of this very best shell, it establishes its power so securely, so firmly, that no change of persons, institutions or parties in the bourgeois-democratic republic can shake it.
Vladimir Lenin
The State and Revolution
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Vladimir Lenin
The State and Revolution
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Italian communists led the anti-fascist resistance that overthrew Mussolini and helped end WW2. Today, Italy celebrates “Liberation Day” to commemorate the victory of the resistance.
We should remember that the most significant armed resistance group was the “Garibaldi Brigades,” led by the Communist Party of Italy. Liberals and social democrats were also part of the resistance but played a much smaller role.
However, the Communist Party did not always support a strategy of armed struggle against Mussolini, despite being urged by Lenin and Gramsci to do so.
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We should remember that the most significant armed resistance group was the “Garibaldi Brigades,” led by the Communist Party of Italy. Liberals and social democrats were also part of the resistance but played a much smaller role.
However, the Communist Party did not always support a strategy of armed struggle against Mussolini, despite being urged by Lenin and Gramsci to do so.
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On this day, 25 April 1974, Portugal’s right-wing Estado Novo dictatorship was overthrown in a military coup by low-ranking officers who had formed the Armed Forces Movement (MFA). When pro-regime officers ordered troops to open fire, a mutiny by rank-and-file soldiers blocked a counter-revolution. The events became known as the Carnation Revolution, as few shots were fired and people decorated troops with red and white carnations, which were in season and widely sold on the streets.
The regime’s collapse was followed by a working-class uprising lasting over 18 months. Urban workers took over workplaces, while rural workers seized land to farm collectively.
A major reason for the regime’s unpopularity was the colonial war against independence movements in Angola, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, Cape Verde, and São Tomé and Principe, ongoing since the early 1960s. After the revolution, these colonies soon gained independence.
Working Class History
The regime’s collapse was followed by a working-class uprising lasting over 18 months. Urban workers took over workplaces, while rural workers seized land to farm collectively.
A major reason for the regime’s unpopularity was the colonial war against independence movements in Angola, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, Cape Verde, and São Tomé and Principe, ongoing since the early 1960s. After the revolution, these colonies soon gained independence.
Working Class History
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