Red star tribune | revolutionary news & history

It’s been 100 years since the world lost the revolutionary titan Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, more commonly known as Vladimir Lenin. There have been mountains of books, articles, documentaries, and discourse surrounding his legacy, but what’s the real story of his life? What did Lenin think, feel, and do in his life that cemented him as a cornerstone of socialist and communist thought? Lenin is a unifying figure among most of the communist schools-Marxist-Leninists, Trotskyists, Maoists, and more all uphold Lenin. Over a billion people around the world, especially in the global south, uphold his legacy, and millions of capitalists in the imperial core still treat his specter as a boogeyman.