Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.
VLADIMIR LENINThere are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
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It would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a new form of war.
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It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.
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You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
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Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
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We Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not “in the name of capitalism,” but in the name of clearing the path for our movement, which clearing is impossible without the development of capitalism.
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Any cook should be able to run the country.
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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
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It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
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Three keys to success: read, read, read.
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There can be nothing more abominable than religion.
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Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
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But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism to Communism.
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You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
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Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
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The goal of socialism is communism.
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Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.
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America has become one of the foremost countries in regard to the depth of the abyss which lies between the handful of arrogant multimillionaires who wallow in filth and luxury, and the millions of working people who constantly live on the verge of pauperism.
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The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
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We do not have time to play at “oppositions” at “conferences.” We will keep our political opponents,whether open or disguised as “nonparty,” in prison.
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Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
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No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.
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