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 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.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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As an ultimate objective, “peace” simply means communist world control.
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We are not shooting enough professors.
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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.
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Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.
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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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Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
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Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.
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Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
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Learning is never done without errors and defeat.
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Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
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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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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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Any cook should be able to run the country.
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Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.
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He who does not work shall not eat.
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