(Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov; Simbirsk, 1870 - Nijni-Novgorod, 1924) born on april 22 was a Russian communist leader who led the October Revolution and created the Soviet communist union. A member of a middle-class family in the Volga region, his animosity against the tsarist regime was exacerbated after the execution of his brother in 1887, accused of conspiracy. He studied at the Universities of Kazan and Saint Petersburg, where he settled as a lawyer in 1893.
His activities against the tsarist autocracy led him to come into contact with the main Russian revolutionary leader of the time, Georgy Plekhanov, in his exile from Switzerland (1895); it was he who convinced him of the Marxist ideology. Under his influence, he helped found in Saint Petersburg the League of Combat for the Liberation of the Working Class, the embryo of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party chaired by Plekhanov.
In 1897, Lenin was arrested and deported to Siberia, where he devoted himself to the systematic study of the works of Marx and Engels. After his liberation in 1900 he went into exile and founded the newspaper Iskra (the spark) in Geneva, in collaboration with Plekhanov
In the II Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Party (1903), Lenin imposed those ideas at the head of the radical Bolshevik group, which defended his strongly disciplined party model as the vanguard of a revolution that he believed was viable in the short term; In 1912, the break with the Plekhanov and Martov Menshevik minority would be definitively confirmed, attached to a mass party model that would prepare the conditions for the triumph of the workers' revolution in the longer term.
In 1905 Lenin returned to Saint Petersburg to participate in the revolution that had broken out in Russia, Lenin considered that movement as a "dress rehearsal" of the socialist revolution, of which he especially appreciated the spontaneous organizational form of the Russian revolutionaries, such as the soviets or popular councils. he would go into exile again in 1907 due to the failure of the revolution.
Lenin was completing a revolutionary program of immediate application for Russia: mixing the heritage of Marxism with the insurrectionary tradition of Louis Auguste Blanqui, he proposed to anticipate the revolution in Russia by being this one. from the "weak links" of the capitalist chain, where a small group of determined and well-organized revolutionaries could drag the working and peasant masses into a revolution, from which a socialist state would emerge.
The outbreak of the First World War (1914-18) gave him the opportunity to put his ideas into practice: he defined the conflict as the result of the contradictions of capitalism and imperialism and, in the name of proletarian internationalism, later, the deterioration of the tsarist regime as a result of the war allowed him to think about launching the socialist revolution in his country as the first step towards an era of world revolution.
The Russian Revolution 
When the February Revolution of 1917 overthrew Tsar Nicholas II and brought Kerensky to power, Lenin rushed back to Russia with the help of the German army (which saw in Lenin an agitator capable of weakening his enemy Russia). He published his April Theses ordering the Bolsheviks to cease support for the provisional government and to prepare their own revolution by claiming "all power to the Soviets."
A first failed attempt in July forced him to take refuge in Finland, leaving Trotsky to lead the party to seize power through a coup in early November 1917 . The coup became the triumphant October Revolution thanks to the Bolshevik strategy of focusing their demands on the end of the war and the distribution of land . Lenin immediately returned to preside over the new government or Council of People's Commissars.
As the leader of the Bolshevik Party , he has since directed the building of the first socialist state in history. He fulfilled his initial promises by removing Russia from the war for the Peace of Brest-Litowsk (1918) and distributing expropriated land to peasants from large landowners.
He delegated to Trotsky the organization of the Red Army, with which he managed to resist the combined attack of the white armies and foreign intervention in the course of a long Civil War (1918-20). Once control of the old empire of the czars was recovered, he articulated the territory by creating the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922), which he gave a formal organization by the Constitution of 1923.
Driven by the needs of the war, but also following his own ideological convictions, he imposed a policy of immediate socialization of the economy, nationalizing the main means of production and subjecting activities to strict central planning (war communism); the difficulties of such a radical transformation caused the collapse of production and a general disorganization of the Russian economy.
Lenin then had to rectify his initial mistakes, convincing his party of the need to introduce the New Economic Policy (1921), which consisted of going back on the path of socialization, leaving a certain margin for freedom of movement. market and private initiative (authorization of foreign investments, freedom of wages), with which it achieved an appreciable economic recovery.
Plagued by a serious illness, Lenin gradually retired from the political leadership, while he saw how his collaborators - especially Trotsky and Stalin - began the dispute over the succession. he eventually passed away in 1924
Lenin is known for establishing the political tradition of Marxism-Leninism, which emphasizes the creation of a dictatorship of the proletariat by means of a revolutionary vanguard party and democratic centralism, in which political decisions reached through free discussion are binding upon all members of the political party.
Lenin is one of the most influential political thinkers of modern history, authoring influential communist texts such as "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism", "State and Revolution", and "What Is to Be Done? Burning Questions of Our Movement".
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What is to be Done
In which he defended the possibility of making a socialist revolution triumph in Russia as long as it was led by a vanguard of determined professional revolutionaries organized like an army. -
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism:patrick-lenin: he defined the conflict (world war 1) as the result of the contradictions of capitalism and imperialism
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The State and Revolution :lenin-fancy: Lenin defined this state as a transitory and necessary phase of the dictatorship of the proletariat, which was to prepare the way for the communist future.
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Lenin's speech: The Middle Peasants ☭ Ленин: О крестьянах-середняках :lenin-cat:
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Lenin's speech:What Is Soviet Power? / Ленин:Что такое Советская власть?
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Lenin in October
is a 1937 Soviet biographical drama film
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My ideal music world described by what I don't like already.
I believe what music would look like and how we perceive it is drastically different from what we have now. If you look at Black Church, rich white kid grade school and Venezuela El Sistema and the kind of musicians they produce, in a late stage socialist world, we could have the entire world operated like that. Understanding what those three things are paramount to understanding what I'm talking about below.
Musical Literacy: In my opinion, music is a language and the fact that most of us don't speak or read it is because our society wastes our time serving our bourgeoisie rulers. I don't think music is actually that hard- but stripped of community and common-sense education it becomes hard. In my ideal world, children learn music young and start in musical groups early as to understand why theyre playing music, what theyre doing when playing music and give feedback as to provide understanding. Everyone is provided an hour lesson a week or some sort of group lesson is provided.
Money in Music: Mankind has superceded the need for money, no one is chasing money anymore and the power imbalances that money causes in music is severed. There are no longer a legion of rich white kids who play black music, everyone plays it. Jazz becomes a fundamental building block to learning and understanding music. The lack of money in the industry doesnt chase off people who would otherwise stick around forever. Having excess money no longer means you crowd out other people since the facilities, time and resources you have at your disposal is now shared by everyone else.
Gigging: No one makes money from music because the world is later stages of socialism. No one cares if you're exceptionally good anymore since there would be so many people who are good at music. There will always be people who are at the top of the field, but the cultural inportance would shift to everyone participating opposed to who has the most chops and has the best gigs.
Practicing: I love practicing, what I don't like is that I feel like my practice is catch up for something I should already have. In my ideal world, we are all proficient musicians around early teenage years from sheer immersion and utilizing the sponginess of our young brains. This would free up our time in our later years to be diversified in other instruments, other styles of music, composing and also just real life. Maybe I just play guitar, compose and my sidejob is assisting the clean up of the excesses of capitalism. Maybe I spend more time socializing and communing with music. Maybe I spend more time with my family.
Hero Worship: While again there will always be outliers regarding skill, I think gulf between them and the rest of us becomes dramatically smaller. We as a society understand that people are products of their material circumstances and don't place as much value on the vainglorious and narcisisstic musician we enshrine today. The value is instead placed on community and making sure everyone is involved. No one would really care if you could play amazingly because most people would be at a high level anyway.
Taste: Since we are all playing music, taste would dramatically shift. I never hated an orchestral peice that I participated and played in. However, I've been massively bored listening to a symphony for the first time with no personal context. I think if we're all playing this kind of music and literacy is more promoted, what people generally like would change drastically and things that arent as appreciated would be more appreciated. Especially cross culturally.
There's more but this is off the top of my head. Too bad I live in hell.
A lot of this is based on the assumption that every child is capable of and/or interested in music. I disagree with that. I had a lot of the advantages and opportunities and time for practice that you talked about and I still came out of childhood with no idea how music really works. If anything music helped ruin my self-esteem as a child and made me dislike music itself.
I kept hearing every adult in my life talk about how music and math are related from a very early age, and that if I was so good at math (which I was and am damn good at) that I should understand music. I came out of every lesson and practice session feeling miserable, like I was an absolute idiot for not understanding it, that my brain was just broken. Teachers would spend hours trying to help me learn to read sheet music and associate it with tones. They'd play a note on an instrument or hum or whistle it, explain that it's an A or B or C or whatever, and ask me to match it by humming it back. I could never match it successfully. Not once. One particularly kindhearted teacher was nearly in tears after a full hour trying to work with me one-on-one on that while other students practised. I felt awful, I felt like I was making her feel bad, which I didn't want to do at all, I liked her. I dreaded school days with music classes. I'd throw up out of nervousness on concert days because I was scared of being exposed as unable to play. When I was 9 and we had to pick an instrument for the year, I decided to play trombone because there were several other good trombone players. My plan was that when concert time came around, I could just fake playing and let them actually play instead to cover for me. When I was caught (one of the other trombone players ratted me out) I begged to do stagehand kind of stuff instead at concerts instead of playing. I was told that wasn't allowed and that music classes were mandatory, and that if I didn't make the effort I'd have to repeat music class. I had never repeated a class in my life, I was getting 80%+ in absolutely every other class, usually 90%+. In the end I think my teachers had just given up and gave me the minimum passing mark of 60% in each subsequent music class because they didn't want to waste more time on me. I was OK with that. The rest of the classes and concerts was basically me doing malicious compliance. If I couldn't be allowed to stop playing, I'd simply play badly.
When middle school happened and I no longer had to take mandatory music classes it was one of the happiest days of my life. When I do listen to music instead of silence or something purely verbal (which isn't often), I tend to listen to artists who have lyrics that are clearly understandable and complex with clever wordplay that I can focus on, with the non-verbal stuff being just faint background noise within the overall song that I can tune out. I don't know if there's a musical equivalent of aromantic/asexual, but if there is, I'm that. All my childhood music-related memories are painful. Let the kids try music, sure. But let them also opt out if they want.
I think if youre doing music in a vacuum of a class or private tutoring youre doing it wrong, if you still dont like it after that you should be able to opt out.
I just wanna play punk music, not live in a world of band geeks
I think in a socialist world your taste would be different, not that you wouldnt like punk but i think wed all just have very different tastes.
I like my tastes
You wouldnt be the same person you are now if you grew up in later stage socialism
What if that late stage socialism was really into Adorno and hated jazz?
I dunno? I mean it doesnt have to be jazz, just some sort of improvised music as the foundation for learning.