Learning is never done without errors and defeat.
VLADIMIR LENINThe press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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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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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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One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
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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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Trust is good, but control is better.
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We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.
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Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
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Don’t be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.
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I don’t care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.
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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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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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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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Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.
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One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers Communist and the disarming of the bourgeoisie the middle class.
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The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.
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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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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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Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
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You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.
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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
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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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As an ultimate objective, “peace” simply means communist world control.
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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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Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.
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We are not shooting enough professors.
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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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