I think there's already a partial co-option, which you see with anti-Stalin takes - where it was big bad Stalin who ruined everything, but Lenin was cool and if he had lived, the Soviet Union would have magically been better and not had any purges or famines. You see this kind of stuff with every socialist who died (or was otherwise removed from positions of power, like Trotsky :pika-pickaxe:) too early to do much stuff (although Lenin actually did a lot, it's just that the people dropping these takes haven't actually read anything) - people who lack proper materialist analysis will just assume that bad decisions happen because the people in charge are evil, and not because there's actual material conditions underlying things, and so if a different guy happened to be in charge, the bad things would have simply not happened.