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.
VLADIMIR LENINAtheism is the natural and inseparable part of 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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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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Those who are opposed to armed uprising. Must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.
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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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Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.
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There can be nothing more abominable than religion.
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Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
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Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.
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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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When a liberal is abused, he says, ‘Thank God they didn’t beat me.’ When he is beaten, he thanks God they didn’t kill him. When he is killed, he will thank God that his immortal soul has been delivered from its mortal clay.
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The soundest strategy in war is to postpone operations until the moral disintegration of the enemy renders the delivery of the mortal blow both possible and easy.
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You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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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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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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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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