Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie is many times stronger than we. To give it the weapon of freedom of the press is to ease the… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The working class must break up, smash the "ready-made state machinery," and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
When we say "the state," the state is We, it is we, it is the proletariat, it is the advanced guard of… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Unity must be won, and only the workers, the class-conscious workers themselves can win it - by stubborn and persistent effort. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers Communist and the disarming of the… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament-this is… — 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
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
The whole struggle of our Party (and of the working class movement in Europe generally) must be directed against opportunism. The latter… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Behind the epistemological scholasticism of empirio-criticism one must not fail to see the struggle of parties in philosophy, a struggle which in… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic… — 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
The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Only struggle educates the exploited class. Only struggle discloses to it the magnitude of its own power, widens its horizon, enhances its… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
All contemporary religions and churches, all and every kind of religious organization, Marxism has always viewed as organs of bourgeois reaction, serving… — 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 Image
Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Our power does not know liberty or justice. It is established on the destruction of the individual will. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
For the complete extinction of the state, complete Communism is necessary. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
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 Image
The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. — 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 their press… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
International unity of the workers is more important than the national. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
