Absolutely, but Lenin also died only a decade after the revolution. There was so much more to learn from the first national experiment in socialism that he did not have chance to observe let alone write about.
My point to the OP was to acknowledge the limits on Lenin that were imposed on him by time itself and to read later writers to understand how Marxism-Leninism advanced beyond Lenin's writings, and indeed where it has not yet advanced beyond his writings, as so much of what he wrote is still sound and applicable to the world today.
Hope is useless. What we need is courage.
You're fighting a losing battle. We all are. And yet the future will be secure.
And if it won't be, would you rather have had courage?
Courage. Courage in the face of it. Not hope. Courage. We will prevail, not through hope, but through courage. We will win, not through hope, but through courage.
The people who create the conditions for winning will never see the winning. They will probably never be close to seeing the winning. They will probably never be close enough to hope.
The people who create the conditions of the future, they will create those conditions through courage without hope.