Lenin: In His Time & Ours

Join Paul Le Blanc, Jodi Dean, and others for a discussion of what we can learn from Lenin for today's struggles.
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Over the last century, the legacy of Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin has been fiercely contested. This discussion with acclaimed scholar of communist history Paul Le Blanc presents a modern take on the revolutionary icon, with an emphasis on the powerful democracy and collective struggles behind much of Lenin’s political thought.
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Speakers:
Paul Le Blanc is a long-time activist and Professor of History at La Roche College, is the author of a number of widely-read studies, including Lenin and the Revolutionary Party, From Marx to Gramsci, Marx, Lenin and the Revolutionary Experience, and most recently, Lenin: Responding to Catastrophe, Forging Revolution.
Jodi Dean is the author or editor of thirteen books, including Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies, The Communist Horizon, Crowds and Party, and Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging.
Cliff Connolly is a contributor to Cosmonaut Magazine and a member of Marxist Unity Group.
Linda Loew is a longtime socialist, feminist and union activist.
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Cliff Connolly is sounding a little bit like Adam Curtis, not that’s a bad thing.

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That AI generated intro to the video was dystopian

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I appreciate Jodi Dean's questions about Lenin's "underside", although a little repetitive and drawn-out, but Linda Loew's localized pamphlet doesn't seem to have a place here.
Cliff Connolly seeks to situate Lenin in context, his, ours and others'. His call for an underlying, evolving culture and mythology of revolutionary culture is very pertinent, and is in fact the essential bedrock for all else. The relatively short life of the USA so far, plus its obsession with stripping away layers of culture as soon as they build up, both tend to militate against cultural development.
Inexplicably, all the panelists have sidestepped the worldwide struggle for secularism, which I find to be a mystifying weakness not found in the Left worldwide.
Why this taboo in the U.S.?