Tbh everything I said above could be applied to Mao as well. He had the genius insight that the path to power in China lay in a military struggle mobilizing the peasantry when everyone else in party leadership thought that was crazy and un-Marxist, but then when that insight translated into running China he did not do a good job and should have listened to his fellow party members.

Lenin is such a tragic figure. So brilliant at taking and holding power, so bad at communist theory.

The trouble is we end up having to install both when we could be only using Signal