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.
VLADIMIR LENINThe goal of socialism is communism.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
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We are not shooting enough professors.
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Truth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration it.
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You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.
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You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
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Don’t be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.
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Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.
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Learning is never done without errors and defeat.
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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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We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.
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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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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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One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
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One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.
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No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
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There can be nothing more abominable than religion.
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One cannot live in society and be free from society.
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Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.
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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 true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.
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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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Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.
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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
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Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
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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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