"I.V. Stalin holds a meeting of the members of the Central Committee of the RSDLP and the Duma Five in exile in the village of Monastyrskoye. 1917.", painting by V.A. Krotkov, 1938

Class gets its significance from the process of surplus extraction. The relationship between worker and owner is essentially an exploitative one, involving the constant transfer of wealth from those who labour (but do not own) to those who own (but do not labour). This is how some people get richer and richer without working, or with doing only a fraction of the work that enriches them, while others toil hard for an entire lifetime only to end up with little or nothing.

- Michael Parenti.

The US, along with its European satraps, fought an economic war against Russia and lost, letting Europe take the pain. Now the US has begun an economic war against China this time alone, and their loss will be greater than their worst fears. The former hegemon will be humiliated into submission.

The name and work of V.I. Lenin will be sacredly preserved by humanity for centuries

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's birthday is 155 years old. The founder of the Bolshevik Party and the world's first socialist state, a brilliant thinker and revolutionary creator, he had a colossal influence on the course of history. His life is an example of selfless struggle for the interests of workers, equality and friendship of peoples.

V.I. Lenin and his comrades literally saved Russia. They restored the unity of the disintegrated country and in an unprecedentedly short time transformed it into a powerful state. Lenin's ideas and deeds laid the foundation for all future achievements: industrialization and cultural revolution, the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War, the first manned flight into space, the peaceful use of atomic energy. Our fathers and grandfathers were rightfully proud of these and other achievements. We are proud of them too.

The success of Lenin's policy was determined by the fact that it was built on a solid foundation of dialectical - not dogmatic, but also not speculative - Marxism. The founder of Bolshevism creatively developed communist theory. His analysis of imperialism revealed the essence of capitalist degradation. It was Lenin who proved the possibility of a socialist revolution in Russia, and his ideas of an alliance between the proletariat and the working peasantry became a victorious guide to action.

The burning relevance of Lenin's teaching in the modern world invariably evokes the delight of some and the hatred of others. Lenin's name, his ideas and his memory remain the object of constant attacks by reactionaries of all stripes. But those who destroy monuments and invent historical fakes cannot erase Lenin from world history. His name and work will be the banner of the oppressed until the planet overcomes the dominance of capitalism. And then, having stepped into a new era of incarnate justice, humanity will sacredly preserve the names of all who stood at the origins of the new socialist society.

Today, Russia has found itself at an extremely dangerous point. NATO militarism, with the help of Bandera's Nazis, is waging a war to destroy our country. The ideological legacy of Lenin-Stalin modernization is acquiring special significance. The Soviet experience of state building and socio-economic development is the fundamental basis for uniting our society, mobilizing it for new great victories!

Russian communists will continue to resolutely oppose anti-communism, anti-Sovietism and Russophobia. The banner of Leninist truth remains the guiding star for all fighters for socialism.

"Lenin lived, Lenin is alive, Lenin will live!"

The cause of Lenin is the main hope of the workers of Russia and the whole world!

Gennady Zyuganov,

Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

"The birds are singing"
Author: Zhukov Nikolajevich, 1961

I love this one. It humanises Lenin. He's taking a stroll and stops to look at the birds. Even shields his eyes from the glare of the sun. All every day mundane things that anybody would do without thought
He's put on such a pedestal for his contributions to mankind that he almost becomes a sort of mythical creature. This simple painting brings life to the man, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov "Lenin".

Light reading today.

"On Lenin's Birthday"
By Nikolai Sysoev, 1979

Sergey Kirov, a devoted revolutionary and close ally of Joseph Stalin, was a key figure in the early Soviet Union. His assassination in 1934 remains one of the most shocking and mysterious events in Soviet history.

"Builders of Communism", painting by Korentsov Alexander Ivanovich, 1963

V.I. Lenin in Razliv in 1917
A. Rylov, 1934

Production becomes social, but appropriation remains private. The social means of production remain the private property of a few. The general framework of formally recognised free competition remains, and the yoke of a few monopolists on the rest of the population becomes a hundred times heavier, more burdensome and intolerable.

Lenin - Imperialism The Highest Stage of Capitalism

James Nasmyth - A Steam Hammer at Work, 1871

“Walking Home in the Snow”
2025 Chris May

“Another day done. Smoke rising, boots heavy.”

"Women of the Soviet Union, strengthen the defensive power of the USSR!"
Artist - E.Melnikova 1941.

Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party.

Soviet artillerymen transporting a divisional gun during the crossing of the Oder River in Germany, c. January 1945. Photo by Dmitri Baltermants.