this post was submitted on 23 Jan 2026
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[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 11 points 4 weeks ago

What about his lingerie

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Pretty chic tbh

Bet I could get lots of dates in this getup

[–] bonenode@piefed.social 5 points 4 weeks ago

Sure, I'll get you started:

First of May 1956

Third of November 1973

Tenth of February 1968

[–] Danarchy@lemmy.nz 4 points 4 weeks ago

More like Vladimir Elite Linen

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 weeks ago

Cheaper than the Makhno look with the $900 pants.

[–] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works -5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

The ultimate start of the century bourgeois attire

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Like many leftist intellectuals, Lenin originated from the bourgeoisie

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

By that point, though, Lenin had lost a great majority of his childhood privledges. His father died at 15, and he was expelled from university for his radicalism and participation in demonstrations. By the time Lenin would have had this picture taken, there's no confusion about his material wealth.

I'm not sure bourgeois was the right label either, though his family was certainly well-off.

[–] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yet he was able to make lectures and write books all along his exile

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago
[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago

Yet another way in which capitalism creates the conditions of it's own overthrow: it creates a class of people with the time and resources to study and organize against it, and some of them do.