October Revolution - Is there any relevance to today's events?

The events of October 1917 continue to shake the world even today. And yet they almost didn't occur, meaning a slip by a whisker in any of the preceding events and the Russian revolution may never have happened. The October Revolution (as it is referred to) organized by Vladimir Lenin nearly a century ago, is still relevant today in ways that would have seemed unimaginable when Soviet Communism collapsed. The prime relevance being in the lesson that rulers in unequal societies need to think twice before embarking on poorly thought through taxation drives or on undertaking policies that contract employment-generation instead of expanding it, even if the effects are perceived to be only in the short term. The Czars experienced this folly in the early 20th century, the British lost control of India owing to similar mistakes vis-a-vis the Indian economy at around the same period and perhaps today the government in Pakistan is facing similar challenges within a year of its assuming power; primarily due to its callous approach towards peoples' apathy - Who would have thought that an insignificant party such as the JUI(F) could have found so much traction all around and that too so soon! Marxist-Leninism (albeit in the unique capitalist-Maoist form) still propels China, the world's surging economic power, even as that same ideology ruins Cuba and Venezuela. Meaning, when it comes to developing economies with large percentiles of poor population, the applications of capitalism need to be tapered to suit the real time requirements of the people rather than merely pandering to text book solutions. This seems to be the very mistake being made by the current Pakistani leadership here at home - You just cannot punish the masses for an economic mess, which is not of their making. Today, it is not just the bizarre environment of North Korea where Lenin's philosophy still thrives, but more surprisingly, it is experiencing a resurrection in democratic Britain: Jeremy Corbyn, the quasi-Leninist but with democratic principles, is in many ways the most extreme politician ever to lead one of Britain's two main parties, and it seems that he is inching towards power in the upcoming December 2019 elections.

More importantly, not just the Lenin philosophy but also the Lenin's tactics are today coming across as being once again resurgent. He was a sophisticated genius of merciless zero-sum gain, expressed by his phrase 'Kto kovo?' - literally, 'Who, whom?' asking...