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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.

Vladimir Lenin

We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Agreement Hate Language Writing
One cannot live in society and be free from society.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Freedom Impossible Live Oneself
The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Ability Art Audience Strong Truth
When 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.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Gratitude God Himself History Kill Mortal Soul Thankful
Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Art Important Movie
One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Fools Funny Oneself Wisdom
You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Communist Creation Knowledge Mindset Yourself
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.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Democracy Development Limitation Oneself
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.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Change Food Men Myself Practice
We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Achievement Country Glory Nation Need Reality Revolution
Autocracy 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.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Atheist Force Heaven Promise Religion Resistance
Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Freedom Oppression Talk
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.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Authority Hands Himself Limitation Myself
But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Differences Littles May
We do not have time to play at “oppositions” at “conferences.” We will keep our political opponents,whether open or disguised as “nonparty,” in prison.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Play Politics Prison Time
Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.
VLADIMIR LENIN

Generation Myself Transformation World Youth

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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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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