Economics Quotes by Vladimir Lenin

11 Economics quotes by Vladimir Lenin

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For readers wanting a glimpse of revolutionary economics, Lenin’s brief remarks here provide a direct line to his strategic thinking. The eleven quotes, while few, distill his core arguments about class and capital.

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Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.

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Politics is the most concentrated expression of economics.

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Fascism is capitalism in decay.

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Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.

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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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If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly…

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This fear of criticism displayed by the advocates of freedom of criticism cannot be attributed solely to craftiness. No, the majority of…

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The progressive historical role of capitalism may be summed up in two brief propositions: increase in the productive forces of social labour,…

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Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capitalism is established; in which the…

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Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by…

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“Private property based on the labour of the small proprietor, free competition, democracy, i.e., all the catchwords with which the capitalists and…

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Our power does not know liberty or justice. It is established on the destruction of the individual will.

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Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

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