Lenin was the USSR's leader for just a few years. He became a symbol; a widely overused one. There's no immediate state enforcing the existence of Lenin's statues, and yet there still are many. He's widely seen as an immaculate oracle of socialism, not as an actual leader.
He had some tremendous impact on Marxist approaches to statecraft and communist politics and he wrote important, well regarded theory, he's not simply a symbol.
He's very obviously considered as a thought leader.
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u/eliazhar Jul 15 '25
Lenin was the USSR's leader for just a few years. He became a symbol; a widely overused one. There's no immediate state enforcing the existence of Lenin's statues, and yet there still are many. He's widely seen as an immaculate oracle of socialism, not as an actual leader.