Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.
VLADIMIR LENINThe 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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The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
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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 best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
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Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.
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We are not shooting enough professors.
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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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One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers Communist and the disarming of the bourgeoisie the middle class.
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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 way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
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Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.
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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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Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
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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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Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
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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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