Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
VLADIMIR LENINAutocracy 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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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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Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
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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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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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Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
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Any cook should be able to run the country.
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I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don’t eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.
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Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
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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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There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
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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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As an ultimate objective, “peace” simply means communist world control.
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It is necessary – secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.
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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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