❤️💛 To a man celebrated around the world to this day. 🫡
“All possible greetings” was a favorite salutation. It’s only fitting an international barrage of languages respond in kind.
🍻 Happy Birthday Vladimir Lenin
🌸 誕生日おめでとうレーニン-ウラジミール
(Otanjōbiomedetō rēnin'urajimīru)💐
🎉 生日快乐列宁弗拉基米尔
(Lièníng·fú lā jī mǐ'ěr shēngrì kuàilè)
🤍💙♥️ С днем рождения Владимир Ленин
(S dnem rozhdeniya Vladimir Lenin)
🪅 Feliz cumpleaños Vladimir Lenin
عيد ميلاد سعيد لينين فلاديمير 🎊
(eid milad saeid linin fladimir)
The progenitor of Marxism-Leninism, he took the theory of Marxist property relations, dialectics, and historical materialism and synthesized them into a society building system that would aid various other countries with their own revolutionary actions
Lenin was a man who spoke the language of the people. In the iconic photo above, he holds the workers and peasants alike in rapt attention.
📖✍🏿 Poet and writer Langston Hughes was so inspired by Lenin’s vision and the Soviet accomplishments he so eloquently captures the occasion in verse. 🖊
📝 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. 🖋
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📝 Ballads of Lenin
Comrade Lenin of Russia,
High in a marble tomb,
Move over, Comrade Lenin,
And give me room.
I am Ivan, the peasant,
Boots all muddy with soil.
I fought with you, Comrade Lenin.
Now I have finished my toil.
Comrade Lenin of Russia,
Alive in a marble tomb,
Move over, Comrade Lenin,
And make me room.
I am Chico, the Negro,
Cutting cane in the sun.
I lived for you, Comrade Lenin.
Now my work is done.
Comrade Lenin of Russia,
Honored in a marble tomb,
Move over, Comrade Lenin,
And leave me room.
I am Chang from the foundries
On strike in the streets of Shanghai.
For the sake of the Revolution
I fight, I starve, I die.
Comrade Lenin of Russia
Speaks from the marble tomb:
On guard with the workers forever —
The world is our room!🖋
📕📗find Lenin’s collected writings at Marxists.org:
🔬🧪 On scientific socialism, CW 14 here: 🥼🔭
And a copy of, arguably, his most important writings in one book
What is to be Done
Imperialism - The Highest Stage of Capitalism
The State and Revolution
📘📙 here.
And a Bonus from Zizek, you can download from here “Revolution at the Gates”
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