Lenin is back!

I was passing through the Thiruvanmiyur bus stand when I was hit by a vampire of old times..one that had me in its holds for long and still does, though with a much lesser intensity (and why??, will find an answer sometime later). There is this Kalyana mandapam near the bus stand where a state- level meet of the Communist party is being held. A big hoarding of Lenin in black and white on a red background has been erected. And this is enough to kindle in me, the long fuming fire of communism. Did Lenin have such magnetism in real life, as is being projected in all these posters? Only someone in his era can answer that, but I can vouch for the fact that his implementation of the spirit of communism and his ways of work (to my very limited knowledge, based on what I have read about him) certainly attract even the critics of communism.

All the red literature in this world cannot arouse in me, the same feeling as a poster of Lenin/Stalin or the sickle-hammer on a red background. These lines from a long forgotten Tamil movie come to my mind the moment I think of the Red revolution:

‘Manidha Manidha ini un vizhigal sivanthal ulagam vidiyum

Vizhiyil vazhiyum udhiram muzhudhum ini un saridham ezhuthum’

My ode to the greatest Red revolutionary leader: my management ideal. Money, my honey, but not at the cost of the hand that makes this world run!! Communism in its raw form emblazoned with the motto of Capitalism! The philosophy is not dead and the truth shall be proved soon!