How can you make a revolution without executions?
VLADIMIR LENINOnly an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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I don’t care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.
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You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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Only struggle educates the exploited class. Only struggle discloses to it the magnitude of its own power, widens its horizon, enhances its abilities, clarifies its mind, forges its will.
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But I can’t listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid, nice things, and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.
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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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Comrade Stalin, having become Secretary-General, has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using that authority with sufficient caution.
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Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
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It is necessary – secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.
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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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One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
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The goal of socialism is communism.
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Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom.
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We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as the immediate task of the coming revolutionary action.
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The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them.
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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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Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.
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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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Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.
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Those who are opposed to armed uprising. Must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.
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Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.
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Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.
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Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.
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One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and forceful interest in politics.
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Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
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Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism. Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
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A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another.
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