Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
VLADIMIR LENINWhen a liberal is abused, he says, ‘Thank God they didn’t beat me.’ When he is beaten, he thanks God they didn’t kill him. When he is killed, he will thank God that his immortal soul has been delivered from its mortal clay.
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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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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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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The true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.
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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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He who does not work shall not eat.
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We are not shooting enough professors.
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Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism. Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
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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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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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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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The goal of socialism is communism.
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Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
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One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.
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Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.
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