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.
VLADIMIR LENINOnly by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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The goal of socialism is 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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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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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
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Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
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But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.
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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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As an ultimate objective, “peace” simply means communist world control.
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Trust is good, but control is better.
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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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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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The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
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We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.
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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 must pursue the removal of church property by any means necessary in order to secure for ourselves a fund of several hundred million gold rubles.
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