[Vladimir Lenin looking pensive]
To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament - this is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarism.
Vladimir Lenin
The State and Revolution
1917
https://thebad.website/comic/bourgeois_parliamentarism


I have no issue portraying Lenin’s many contributions to marxist theory in a positive light.
It is possible to condemn one’s actions where appropriate while still acknowledging they were right about other things.