Why is he revered again?

>says ban on non-bolshevik media is just for a few months
>never actually ends it

>socialists start winning in the polls
>"lol election are actually just a burgoise conspiracy"

No one except the fucking tankies at leftypol reveres him

I see normies always staying stuff like "Stalin was the evil one, he ruined everything Lenin created!!1!"

that's because his (((NEP))) allowed some relief for the russian people and industrialized the nation for the next 10~15 years(continued by Stalin from 1923 to ~1934). Since they worship industry you now understand their veneration of Lenin

First guy who made an actual revolution, not only spoke about it

this
the "Lenin and Trotsky were good bois and Stalin was the only bad Bolshevik" meme is retarded Khr*schevite meming

>Have an election
>Socialist Revolutionaries still win
>REEEEEE ELECTIONS ARE BULLSHIT
>WE NEED ANOTHER REVOLUTION
Was it autism?

Because he led a revolution that overthrew the 900 year old Russian autocracy. It was the first successful revolution of working class people on the planet.

Under Lenin's time there was some real movement toward democracy and emancipation. However, must of his time and efforts were consumed by the civil war and foreign invasions. Many of Lenin's temporary measures for security and efficiency, like dissolving the workers' councils and banning dissident political parties, would later prove disastrous.

Uh, I think workers had it better BEFORE communism.

>>"lol election are actually just a burgoise conspiracy"
sounds like a spook

Because The First Red Scare is too distant and ephemeral memory for the American populace, hell even most American labour organizations said fuck Lenin when it came out how shitty the Soviet situation actually was

>he led a revolution that overthrew the 900 year old Russian autocracy
>People still think Bolsheviks had anything to do with the fall of autocracy.

How hard is it to get the basic facts right

>Under Lenin's time there was some real movement toward democracy and emancipation
Is that why he chose to overthrow a democratic republican system that extended rights to all the village soviets after the Tsar had already abdicated and Kerensky was in charge?

He led a revolution against Russian Republic, you brainlet.
Russian monarchy was deposed in February Revolution.
>real movement towards democracy
...by destroying a democratic republic, and replacing it with centralized Bolshevik dictatorship?
What the fuck are you even doing on this board, when you don't know basic history?

dude the ends justify the means lmao

>Is that why he chose to overthrow a democratic republican system that extended rights to all the village soviets after the Tsar had already abdicated and Kerensky was in charge?
Democratic Republican govenment was unelected and illegitimate. In particular, it was elected by a very tiny minority of people of a very certain social class. It was illegitmate in a sence that it had no more authority over Russia than Somalian governement over Somalia. Less, in fact.
>says ban on non-bolshevik media is just for a few months
Lenin didn't ban non-Bolshevik media and opinions at all, but some action against oligarch-controlled mass media was taken.
Communists reject a Liberal freedom of press to begin with.
>"lol election are actually just a burgoise conspiracy"
Communists do not consider a Liberal republic as something inherently good or valuable.

Good thing that Bolsheviks were elected then...oh wait, they weren't, and they lost the only elections they allowed.

>Democratic Republican govenment was unelected and illegitimate
It was more elected than the Bolsehviks considering it was SR dominated (the majority in the duma by coaltion)

lol no, definitely not in Russia

A succesfull one maybe

In terms of material conditions they absolutely did not. Soviet policies greatly increased access to healthcare and education and, after the 1940s, had eradicated abject poverty.

While workers had some more personal liberties in the late Tsarist period than under Stalin, by Khrushchev's time this was no longer true.

If Lenin was so smart, why didn't he ensure that there was zero possibility Stalin would succeed him?

Revered by whom? I barely see him discussed, much less revered.

He tried to prevent Stalin from becoming leader of the party and specifically laid out plans to stop this, but he was popular enough that his advice was ignored.

Really important to note here that in 1924 the Soviet Union wasn't a despotism. Lenin's power was mostly his legitimacy. Everybody expected the system of collective decision-making to continue, but within just a few years Stalin began dissembling democratic structures within the party and in 1936 murdered essentially every politician who disagreed with his rule.

It's just /pol/ pretending that milquetoast Democrats are actually Marxists. They do this a lot.

Lenin had a high reputation among Marxists and some other socialists but that's it. He's not a popular figure outside of Russia and modern-day communist countries and many Westerners can barely tell him apart from Stalin.

>Why is he revered again?
He isn't.

WHat do you guys think of my Lenin costume? Dressed up for my history class at Uni

Only commietards revere him.
He's an interesting historical figure, in the same way Hitler was. But if you revere either you probably don't have much up top.

Shit

>creates gulag system
>creates secret police
>initiates rounding up of political prisoners
>does so to a degree that you are arrested not only for disagreeing with him, but not agreeing with him enough
>starts mass murder of those guilty of wrong thing

>normies love him and think Stalin was the one who "corrupted" his hopeful crusade

Not bad but you look a lil soft

Is the guy behind you trying to pull off the hunchback of Notre dame

Ok costume. You look like a massive faggot though

>when you don't know basic history?
To be fair they don't teach this shit at the college level. It took me awhile to figure out what the difference was between the February revolution and the October revolution.

The counter culture.

All what Stalin did was literally Leninism

>creates secret police
>Creates gulags

What was the Okhrana? all of these already existed under the tsar

>implying they killed as many or imprisoned millions like Lenins chekists

>what was the french revolution

I know secret police have existed before, but Lenin created the Checka, and it wasnt Stalin who just created the NKVD as most normies believe.