VLADIMIR LENIN QUOTES III
Russian revolutionary (1870-1924)
The Bolshevik slogans and ideas on the whole have been confirmed by history; but concretely things have worked out differently; they are more original, more peculiar, more varied than anyone could have expected.
VLADIMIR LENIN
Letters on Tactics
The Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true. It is comprehensive and harmonious, and provides men with an integral world outlook irreconcilable with any form of superstition, reaction, or defence of bourgeois oppression. It is the legitimate successor to the best that man produced in the nineteenth century, as represented by German philosophy, English political economy and French socialism.
VLADIMIR LENIN
The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism
Does not the whole history of socialism, particularly of French socialism, which is so rich in revolutionary striving, show us that when the working people themselves take power in their hands the ruling classes resort to unheard-of crimes and shootings if it is a matter of protecting their money-bags.
VLADIMIR LENIN
"Report on the Activities of the Council of People's Commissars", January 24, 1918
Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
VLADIMIR LENIN
Collected Works
History causes the military problem to become the essence of the political problem.
VLADIMIR LENIN
attributed, The Dictionary of Military and Naval Quotations
War cannot be abolished unless classes are abolished.
VLADIMIR LENIN
Socialism and War
Any army which does not train to use all the weapons, all the means and methods of warfare that the enemy possesses, or may possess, is behaving in an unwise or even criminal manner. This applies to politics even more than it does to the art of war.
VLADIMIR LENIN
Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder
It is in prison ... that one becomes a real revolutionary.
VLADIMIR LENIN
attributed, "Communists: The Battle Over the Tomb", TIME Magazine, April 24, 1964
I am bound to accord you, in the name of free speech, the full right to shout, lie and write to your heart's content. But you are bound to grant me, in the name of freedom of association, the right to enter into, or withdraw from, association with people advocating this or that view. The party is a voluntary association, which would inevitably break up, first ideologically and then physically, if it did not cleanse itself of people advocating anti-party views.
VLADIMIR LENIN
"Party Organisation and Party Literature", Novaya Zhizn, November 13, 1905
Capital, created by the labour of the worker, crushes the worker, ruining small proprietors and creating an army of unemployed.
VLADIMIR LENIN
The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism
Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers.
VLADIMIR LENIN
"Lenin's Hanging Order", August 11, 1918
For the state to wither away completely, complete communism is necessary.
VLADIMIR LENIN
The State and Revolution
A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the average political level of the masses.
VLADIMIR LENIN
speech on the agrarian question, November 14, 1917
We shall not bind ourselves by treaties. We shall not allow ourselves to be entangled by treaties. We reject all clauses on plunder and violence, but we shall welcome all clauses containing provisions for good-neighbourly relations and all economic agreements; we cannot reject these.
VLADIMIR LENIN
concluding speech following the discussion on the Report on Peace, November 8, 1917
To accept anything on trust, to preclude critical application and development, is a grievous sin.
VLADIMIR LENIN
"Uncritical Criticism", Collected Works
When we are victorious on a world scale I think we shall use gold for the purpose of building public lavatories in the streets of some of the largest cities of the world.
VLADIMIR LENIN
"The Importance of Gold Now and After Complete Victory of Socialism", November 5, 1921
Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact, it screens the non-freedom and inferiority of women, the non-freedom and inferiority of the toilers and exploited.
VLADIMIR LENIN
Soviet Power and the Status of Women
Democracy is a form of the state, it represents, on the one hand, the organized, systematic use of force against persons; but, on the other hand, it signifies the formal recognition of equality of citizens, the equal right of all to determine the structure of, and to administer, the state.
VLADIMIR LENIN
The State and Revolution
It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.
VLADIMIR LENIN
April Theses
Act with the greatest determination and on the offensive. The defensive is the death of every armed rising.
VLADIMIR LENIN
Letters from Finland to the Bolsheviks in Petrograd