Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
VLADIMIR LENINDemocracy is indispensable to socialism.
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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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The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
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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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We must pursue the removal of church property by any means necessary in order to secure for ourselves a fund of several hundred million gold rubles.
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The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.
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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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When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.
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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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Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
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Trust is good, but control is better.
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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.
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The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
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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 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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You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
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