People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.
VLADIMIR LENINBut 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.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.
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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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There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
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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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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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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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The goal of socialism is communism.
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Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
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Three keys to success: read, read, read.
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Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
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Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
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The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.
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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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The bourgeoisie is many times stronger than we. To give it the weapon of freedom of the press is to ease the enemy’s cause, to help the class enemy. We do not desire to end in suicide, so we will not do this.
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