When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Imperialism, in a sense, is the transition stage from capitalism to Socialism. . . . It is capitalism dying, not dead. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
In the end, one or the other will triumph - a funeral dirge will be sung over the Soviet republic or over… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Socialists cannot achieve their great aim without fighting against all oppression of nations. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
No Bolshevik, no Communist, no intelligent socialist has ever entertained the idea of violence against the middle peasants. All socialists have always… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
It is not for nothing that Skaldin in one part of his book quotes Adam Smith: we have seen that both his… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
It is not national interests we are upholding -- we claim that the interests of socialism, the interests of world socialism, rank… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Our aim is to achieve a socialist system of society, which, by eliminating the division of mankind into classes, by eliminating all… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
We must not depict socialism as if socialists will bring it to us on a plate all nicely dressed. That will never… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The progressive historical role of capitalism may be summed up in two brief propositions: increase in the productive forces of social labour,… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capitalism is established; in which the… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Let the "socialist" snivellers croak, let the bourgeoisie rage and fume, but only people who shut their eyes so as not to… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The functionaries of our political organizations and trade unions are corrupted -- or rather tend to be corrupted -- by the conditions… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
We want to achieve a new and better order of society: in this new and better society there must be neither rich… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Does not the whole history of socialism, particularly of French socialism, which is so rich in revolutionary striving, show us that when… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“Private property based on the labour of the small proprietor, free competition, democracy, i.e., all the catchwords with which the capitalists and… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
We Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not "in the name of capitalism," but in the name of clearing the path for our… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
You have read and heard that communist theory-the science of communism created in the main by Marx, this doctrine of Marxism-has ceased… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share
Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share
Our power does not know liberty or justice. It is established on the destruction of the individual will. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share
For the complete extinction of the state, complete Communism is necessary. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share
The reflection of nature in man's thought must be understood not lifelessly but in the eternal process of movement, the arising of contradictions and… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share
The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share
“Private property based on the labour of the small proprietor, free competition, democracy, i.e., all the catchwords with which the capitalists and their press… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share
I don't care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share
I must say that the tasks of the youth in general, and of the Young Communist Leagues and all other organisations in particular, might… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share
People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share
One would like to stroke and caress human beings, but one dares not do so, because they bite. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share
