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Learning is never done without errors and defeat.

Vladimir Lenin

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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Democracy Development Impossible Name Ourselves Path
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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Kind Man Nation Present Togetherness
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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Justice Moral Politics
Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.
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Generation Myself Transformation World Youth
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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Decision Oppression Politics
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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Care Myself Revolution Road World
Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
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Freedom Honesty Hypocrisy Result Weakness
Those who are opposed to armed uprising. Must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.
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Army Coward Enemy Rise
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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Democracy Development Limitation Oneself
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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Communist Creation Knowledge Mindset Yourself
Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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Authority Himself Philsophy Poison Reality
One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
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Oneself Reality
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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Determination Interest Nation Right
Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
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Democracy Movement Revolution Theory
The 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.
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Desire Enemy Freedom Need Suicide Time Weapon
There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
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Deep Time

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