The Incredible Vladimir Lenin: State and Revolution

The Incredible Vladimir Lenin: State and Revolution

“Democracy is a form of the state, it represents, on the one hand, the organized, systematic use of force against persons; but, on the other hand, it signifies the formal recognition of equality of citizens, the equal right of all to determine the structure of, and to administer, the state…

“Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich – that is the democracy of capitalist society … The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament. And so in capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The dictatorship of the proletariat, the period of transition to communism, will for the first time create democracy for the people, for the majority, along with the necessary suppression of the exploiters, of the minority.”

– Vladimir Ilyich Lenin –
(22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924)

Born on 22 April 1870, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was the greatest revolutionary of our time. More than any other man of the twentieth century, Lenin changed the history and thought of our epoch. Founder of the Bolshevik Party (which later became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union), Lenin’s main concern as a practical revolutionary was the victory of the Russian workers and peasants over the vicious tsarist tyranny. The Great October Revolution of 1917 was the greatest vindication of his life’s work.

On 21 January 1924, Lenin fell into a coma and died later that day at the age of 53, with his official cause of death being recorded as an incurable disease of the blood vessels. Lenin had in March 1923 suffered a third stroke and lost his ability to speak, after he experienced partial paralysis on his right side, the same month. By May, he appeared to be making a slow recovery, regaining some of his mobility, speech, and writing skills and in October, he made a final visit to the Kremlin.

“Let us … ensure fresh advances towards the realisation of Lenin’s great ideas of human liberation by winning new victories for the African Revolution. Let us inflict major blows on the imperialists and their African agents and hangers-on the tribalists and greedy, unpatriotic would-be capitalists who would sell the people for their own profit and advancement.

“Let us restore the wealth of Africa to its rightful owners, the African people, and go all out to modernise our economy and uplift the people’s standards on the path towards socialism. That will be Africa’s finest tribute to Lenin!”

Sources:
Wikipedia.
Terence Africanus, “Lenin and Africa”, The African Communist, Number 40, First Quarter 1970.

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