Marxism isn’t some magical dogma, it’s a set of tools for analyzing the world and a vision of a better future that came from the use of these tools and the analysis they gave. Marxism-Leninism and MLM are both to an extent a use of these tools to further analyzing the world.

Without Lenin we wouldn’t have a good analysis of Imperialism and methods for theory application to the real world. Ala vanguard party and all that.