Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
VLADIMIR LENINGive me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.
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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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Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
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The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
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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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No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
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Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.
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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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Truth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration it.
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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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You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
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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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He who does not work shall not eat.
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