Lenin

Studying Lenin to fight imperialist war and racism

 Introductory presentation to the Struggle-La Lucha class on the book “War and Lenin in the 21st Century,” Feb. 4,…

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War and Lenin in the 21st Century

 January 21, 2024, marks 100 years since the death of V.I. Lenin, the leader of the first successful socialist…

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Lenin: Thinker, fighter

https://youtu.be/Bm5xeMxSjgg George Plekhanov did not have Lenin in mind when he wrote his remarkable essay on “The Role of the…

4 years ago

Lenin’s ‘Imperialism’: A weapon for the working class

From a talk given on Sept. 2, 1993, introducing a series of classes on basic Marxist concepts after the destruction…

4 years ago

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…

4 years ago

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.…

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Why is a revolutionary party so important?

The Communist Manifesto was originally called the “Manifesto of the Communist Party." When Karl Marx and Frederick Engels wrote their…

4 years ago

Lenin on Tolstoy

Written in 1990 and first published in the Summer 1993 issue (#18) of Liberation and Marxism magazine. A new book…

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

For a major anniversary like the 150th birthday of V.I. Lenin on April 22, 2020, it’s tempting to try and…

4 years ago

A George Washington he wasn’t: Why Leninism still lives

Originally published in the Jan./Feb. 1991 issue (#8) of Liberation and Marxism magazine. “David Grey” was a shared pen name…

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