[D66] Lenin 150

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https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/22/leni-a22.html

One Hundred and Fifty Years Since the Birth of Lenin
By David North
22 April 2020

Today marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich 
Ulyanov in the Russian city of Simbirsk on April 22, 1870. Known in 
history under the name of Lenin, he was the founder of the Bolshevik 
Party, leader of the 1917 October Revolution and, undoubtedly, a 
towering figure in the political and intellectual history of the 
twentieth century.

Leon Trotsky once wrote that all of Lenin is summed up in the October 
Revolution. Trotsky illuminated the meaning of his observation when he 
wrote, in his history of the events of 1917: “Besides the factories, 
barracks, villages, the front and the soviets, the revolution had 
another laboratory: the brain of Lenin.”

This brain had been at work on the problem of revolution for decades. 
The conquest of power by the Russian working class in October 1917 
marked the intersection of two world historical processes: 1) the 
development of the contradictions of Russian and world capitalism; and 
2) Lenin’s protracted struggle, based on a philosophical materialist, 
i.e., Marxist, analysis of objective socio-economic conditions, to build 
the revolutionary socialist party necessary for the working class to 
establish its independence from all the political agencies of the 
bourgeoisie.

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