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.
VLADIMIR LENINThe best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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We are not shooting enough professors.
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It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
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People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.
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Three keys to success: read, read, read.
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Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism. Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
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There can be nothing more abominable than religion.
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Fascism is capitalism in decay.
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The true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.
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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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The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
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Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.
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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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The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
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We do not have time to play at “oppositions” at “conferences.” We will keep our political opponents,whether open or disguised as “nonparty,” in prison.
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Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.
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There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
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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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Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
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One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and forceful interest in politics.
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Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
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Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
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Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
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Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
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One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
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Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.
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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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