AKEL honors Lenin the great thinker and revolutionary
150 years since Lenin’s birth
AKEL C.C. Press Office, 21st April 2020
AKEL honors the 150th anniversary of the birth of the great revolutionary and thinker, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, who is identified with the momentous event of the 20th century, the October Revolution, but also with the communist worldview, that is to say Marxism-Leninism. One hundred and fifty years onwards, Lenin remains a leading figure who has shaken the world and History, a global symbol of the struggle for a Tomorrow without exploitation, without wars, social inequalities and misery.
The honor to Lenin is the objective recognition by History itself of a man who through his thought and actions made a decisive and foremost contribution towards charting a different perspective for humanity. That is why Lenin inspired and still inspires not only communists, but every human being who believes that humanity deserves a qualitatively different future. It is no coincidence that the greatest scientist of the 20th century, Albert Einstein, said: “I honor Lenin as a man who completely sacrificed himself and devoted all his energy to the realization of social justice…One thing is certain: men of his type are the guardians and restorers of humanity.”
Lenin led the October Revolution and the establishment of the first worker-peasant state in human history. He left a huge legacy of political guidance for the dialectic way of thinking and action of revolutionary parties. His theoretical contribution on the nature of imperialism, on the right of the peoples to self-determination which at the time inspired the struggles of the peoples for national liberation from the shackles of colonialism, on peace, the state, the emancipation of women, and on education constituting an integral part of global human thought.
Leninism, of course, as a contribution to the development of Marxism, is proof that communist ideology is neither a dogma, nor some static theory. It is a scientific tool for thinking, analysing and organising the struggle to change the world, which is constantly evolving with the progress of humanity.
The completion of the 150th anniversary of Lenin’s birth coincides with the global pandemic, which reminds us that neither capitalism, nor health is a guaranteed good for every human being. The dramatic deadlocks and enormous inequalities that the current economic system reproduces stress Lenin’s timelessness and relevance, as a thinker and revolutionary for the socialist tomorrow of the world. It is precisely this revolutionary meaning that sums up Lenin’s entire life and work that has placed him on one of the most glorious peaks in the historical horizon of humanity, visible and bright in the 21st century.
