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Topic: Vladimir Lenin

Elon Musk arrives for US President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2025. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Elon's "tech-bro Maoism" is nothing new

Mark Lawrence Schrad
Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Kim Jong-Un and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The biggest of Republican Big Lies

Cody Cain
Donald Trump and Woodrow Wilson (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Past failures set up today's uprisings

Elizabeth Thompson - The Conversation
Vladimir Putin; Donald Trump; Mohammed bin Salman (AP/Getty/Salon)

What inspires Trump will make you gag

Lucian K. Truscott IV
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Woodrow Wilson (WikiMedia)

Let us learn from the past

John Maxwell Hamilton, Meghan Menard McCune - The Conversation
Vladimir Putin (AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

How do strongmen celebrate a revolution?

Cynthia Hooper - The Conversation
(Salon/Benjamin Wheelock/Reuers/Carlo Allegri)

Steve Bannon, Bolshevik

Andrew O'Hehir
Bernie Sanders, Vladimir Lenin (AP/Mary Altaffer/Photo montage by Salon)

Bernie and the Bolsheviks

Andrew O'Hehir
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Rush Limbaugh (Jeff Malet, maletphoto.com)

Limbaugh transcends Godwin

Elias Isquith
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