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Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

Vladimir Lenin

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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Ability Art Audience Strong Truth
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
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Destruction Law Politics Way
Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
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Children Identity Time Transformation
Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
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Democracy Movement Revolution Theory
Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
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Oneself Peace
Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
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Army Police Power
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.
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Authority Hands Himself Limitation Myself
Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.
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Doctor Medicine
Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.
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Democracy Injustice Oppression Rich
Trust is good, but control is better.
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Better Control Goodness One Liner Trust
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
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Care Liberty Sarcastic True
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
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Freedom History Slave
The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
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Best Destroy Money
How can you make a revolution without executions?
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Death Revolution Yourself
Any cook should be able to run the country.
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Country Food Run
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
It would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a new form of war.
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Greatness Mistake Thinking War
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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Agreement Hate Language Writing
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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Control Media People
Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
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Freedom Oppression Talk
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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Atheist Force Heaven Promise Religion Resistance
No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
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Freedom Politics Satisfaction
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
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Children Myself Teaching
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
Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.
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Art Important Movie
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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Necessary Ourselves People Revolution War
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.
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Gratitude God Himself History Kill Mortal Soul Thankful

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