Ele Allan Alenius (5 June 1925 – 19 November 2022) was a Finnish socialist politician.

He was a Member of the Parliament of Finland for the Finnish People's Democratic League (SKDL) 1966–1977 and the Deputy Minister of Finance 1966–1970.

His grandfather August Alenius (1872-1923) was a member of Lyly's Red Guard staff on the Vilppula front and was sentenced to eight years in prison after the war.

After graduating with a master's degree in philosophy, he was blacklisted by employers in the 1930s due to his leftism, which made it difficult to get a job.

Alenius's university career was interrupted by his political activity, and he was also not accepted into a labor-controlled bank or cooperative.

He said that he had received information that the intelligence organization of SDP led by Veikko Puskala would have been influencing in the background.

In the same year, he also became the first chairman of the Social Student Union (SOL), which was part of SKDL as a community member.

As the leader of the communist SKDL, Alenius distanced the party from the real socialism and introduced his own ideas in the 1969 and 1974 books Sosialistiseen Suomeen ("To the Socialist Finland") ja Suomalainen ratkaisu ("The Finnish Solution") which were strongly criticized by the Soviet Union.

[3] Alenius's work Sosialistiseen Suomeen (1969) represented a socialism that made a radical departure from strict Marxist orthodoxy.

In an interview with Helsingin Sanomat in August 2020, 95-year-old Alenius stated how it would have been better if the Soviet Union had never been born and never existed.