New Age2.png Celebrating the 92nd anniversary of Vladimir Lenin Justice Piitso, The New Age, Johannesburg, 22 January 2016 The world this week celebrates the 92nd anniversary of the life and times of one of the most outstanding revolutionary thinkers in human history - Vladimir Lenin. We take the opportunity of this rare historic moment to commemorate the living memory of this titanic leader of the international proletariat revolution. One of the world's most outstanding philosophical minds of the century departed the land of the living on January 21, 1924. It was during this portentous day that the bulwark army of the proletariat throughout the world, started defining the historical events to be recorded after and before his life. Vladimir Lenin was the finest leader of the world's revolutionary movement and the leader of the first Socialist state in the history of mankind. His immense contribution to the struggles of the world proletariat movement will continue to decorate the beautiful chapters of our history books. Our memories will forever treasure his magnificent contribution to the development of human society. On the morning of the day after his death, the revolutionary government of Soviet Russia conveyed this message of condolence to the people: "Lenin is no more with us but his cause lives on. Acting on the will of the masses, the Soviet government will carry on the work of Vladimir Lenin and will advance along the path charted by him. The Soviet state stands firmly at its post, on guard over the gains of the proletariat revolution." The following day, the Central Committee of the Russian Communist party conveyed a message of condolences enumerating his selfless and historic leadership role to the party, the country and the whole of the progressive world of humanity. The message of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist party reads as thus: "Never since Marx has the history of the great liberation movement of the proletariat produced such a titanic figure as our departed leader, teacher and friend. All what is truly great and heroic is his fearless proletariat mind, a will of iron, unbending, persistent and able to surmount all obstacles, an undying hatred of slavery and oppression, a revolutionary passion that moves mountains. "All this found splendid embodiment in Lenin, whose name has become the symbol of the new world from the East to the West and from the North to the South. But his physical death is not the death of his cause. Lenin lives on in the heart of every member of our party. "Every member of our party is a part of Lenin. The whole of the Communist party is the embodiment of Lenin. The death of our teacher, a heavy blow, will unite the ranks of our party even more closely. "We are marching against capital in a solid militant chain and no force on earth will be able to prevent our ultimate victory. The victory will be the finest monument to Comrade Lenin, the man whom, as their best friend, the masses call their Ilyich." (A respectful form of address in Russian, using the patronymic.) On the day of his funeral, the international proletariat declared a five minute work stoppage. This was the most humble way the working people of the world expressed their innermost loss to their teacher, their best friend and leader. Lenin will forever live in the hearts and minds of the coming generations of man to be the most extraordinary revolutionary of the world Communist movement. His revolutionary ideas and teachings shall forever have great impetus on the spheres of the development of human society. His embodiment to the struggles of humanity remains to be a treasure storehouse to the history of the working class throughout the world. After 92 years of his death, he still remains as the martyr of the oppressed and the exploited. His contribution to the development of Marxism as a scientific revolutionary theory for transformation of society remains colossal. His immortal works remain an inexhaustible fountain of great ideas to steer society into the realities of the present world's material conditions. Lenin developed Marxism to the next level into the new historical period of the epoch of imperialism. His theoretical formulation of imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism remains to be of profound historical significance. Lenin understood well that for humanity to transcend into this new epoch of development, the victorious epoch of the world of socialism, the working class has the political necessity to form a vanguard revolutionary party. The party of the most advanced elements and a political leader of the entire society. The task of such a vanguard party is to lead the present stage of the worldwide transition from capitalism to socialism. Its supreme goal is to construct the ultimate Communist society on whose banner will be inscribed "from each according to his ability and each according to his needs". In his own country, the Bolshevik party led by himself became the vanguard of the working class. The party which inspired and led the first socialist revolution, which ushered in the first workers and peasant republic in history. Lenin defined the new stage of the development of human society to be the new epoch of imperialism, the epoch wherein the world economy and politics are under the hegemony of international finance capital. His appeal to all communists was for them to understand the unfolding world realities on the basis of our revolutionary scientific theory. The Communist International was able to give a profound analysis of the conditions confronting progressive nationalist movements and how they should embrace their struggles to the overall struggles waged by the world revolutionary movement against imperialism and colonialism. The biggest peril facing our revolution are the forces of reaction which seek to turn our hard-won democratic republic into a lumpen state. In his memory, the South African working class must defeat the growing danger of our country leading to a failed African state. Ours is to defeat the agenda of counter revolution to turn our country into a paragon of corruption. . Justice Piitso is the former provincial secretary of the SACP in Limpopo and former ambassador to Cuba. He writes in his personal capacity From: <http://tnaepaper.co.za/> http://tnaepaper.co.za/ -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. 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