Not arguing that he's a Leninist but in terms of building industrial and national might over decades under constant attack from the West, Putin:
Rebuilt the RF from the "shock therapy" of the 90s into a true sovereign great power. Brought the oligarchs under the control of the state and out of politics. Rebuilt the partnership with the Chinese. Western defeat in Ukraine is now a fait accompli, Russia will get all of their "maximalist demands" and more. They will likely reclaim all three of the Black Sea jewels founded by Catherine the Great. Very world-historical-figure to me
To many in the West, democracy requires the existence of multiple parties capable of containing within them different visions for the future of society and giving expression to different opinions. In this view, the state is a neutral arbiter and the principle of “one person, one vote” guarantees equality of democratic participation.
This is a nice ideal, but it obfuscates the role of class power. In such a system, it is very easy for the dominant class — the class with the most financial and organizational power — to determine political outcomes in its own interests, capture the state, and prevent any democratic challenges to its rule. Indeed this is precisely what occurs under capitalism. The result is that the state serves as an instrument of capitalist class rule. Its institutional arrangements and political customs serve to advance and secure the domination by one class over another. “Order” and “stability” moderate class conflict in the interests of preserving the power of capital and preventing the emergence of a political system that serves working people.3 In effect, liberal democracy facilitates the consolidation and operation of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.
Impressive showing in the Speedrun Lenin in Two Paragraphs Challenge
Authoritarian see-see-pee imprisoning democracy-loving water in an endless cycle of resuse, instead of Correctly using it all up with flood irrigation and data centers like God intended
Some sort of comic seems to be happening.
The surrealism is the point.
Unix good corpos bad.