/lit/ - Literature

Unironically the greatest political mind of the 20th century.
If it weren't for Stalin we would be living in a true Communist utopia.

>>19260196
>Kautsky
ohnononono

He shits on Kautsky a lot.

I do not like Lenin. What are some alternatives? No Bordiga please.
To jannies: this is about the works of authors, not their lives, so it belongs here, not /his/.

>>18157659
>What thinker *has* actually acted?

Lenin

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

Everyone knows Lenin's testament so I will offer new evidence. From the Eleventh Congress:
>If we take Moscow with its 4,700 Communists in responsible positions, and if we take that huge bureaucratic machine, that gigantic heap, we must ask: who is directing whom? I doubt very much whether it can truthfully be said that the Communists are directing that heap. To tell the truth they are not directing, they are being directed.
Lenin knew the USSR would become a bureaucratic police state in which the proles had no power and were actively oppressed by an elite.