No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.
VLADIMIR LENINThe way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
More Vladimir Lenin Quotes
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The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.
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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.
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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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No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
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The goal of socialism is communism.
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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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The soundest strategy in war is to postpone operations until the moral disintegration of the enemy renders the delivery of the mortal blow both possible and easy.
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He who does not work shall not eat.
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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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How can you make a revolution without executions?
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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
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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.
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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.
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Any cook should be able to run the country.
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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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