Vladimir Lenin Quotes About Capitalism

Quotes about: Capitalism

• Fascism is capitalism in decay.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Political, Decay, Politics

• We Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not "in the name of capitalism," but in the name of clearing the path for our movement, which clearing is impossible without the development of capitalism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Names, Democracy, Movement

• Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Business, Sacrifice, Men

• Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Freedom, Tyrants, Slave Owners

• Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capitalism is established; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun, in which the division of all territories of the globe among the biggest capitalist powers has been completed.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Development, World, Territory

• When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Rope, Capitalist, Capitalism

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

  Vladimir Lenin

  Should Have, Giving, Definitions

  Vladimir Lenin (2010). “Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism”, p.57, Penguin UK

• In the end, one or the other will triumph - a funeral dirge will be sung over the Soviet republic or over world capitalism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Funeral, Triumph, World

• But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism to Communism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Communication, Mean, Democracy

• But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop, the greater is the concentration of production and capital which gives rise to monopoly?

  Vladimir Lenin

  Giving, Competition, Sake

  Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (2012). “Essential Works of Lenin: "What Is to Be Done?" and Other Writings”, p.257, Courier Corporation

• Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by a handful of the richest or most powerful nations -- all these have given birth to those distinctive characteristics of imperialism which compel us to define it as parasitic or decaying capitalism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Powerful, Numbers, Oligarchy

• The functionaries of our political organizations and trade unions are corrupted - or rather tend to be corrupted - by the conditions of capitalism and betray a tendency to become bureaucrats, i.e., privileged persons divorced from the people and standing above the people.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Organization, People, Political

  "The State and Revolution". Book by Vladimir Lenin. Chapter 6, www.marxists.org. 1917.

• Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Triumph, World, Communism

  Vladimir Il'ich Lenin (1975). “Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh”

• Imperialism, in a sense, is the transition stage from capitalism to Socialism. . . . It is capitalism dying, not dead.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Dying, Transition, Socialism

• Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Finals, Imperialism, Stage

• You have read and heard that communist theory-the science of communism created in the main by Marx, this doctrine of Marxism-has ceased to be the work of a single socialist of the nineteenth century, even though he was a genius, and that it has become the doctrine of millions and tens of millions of proletarians all over the world, who are applying it in their struggle against capitalism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Struggle, Doctrine, Genius

  V. I. Lenin (2008). “Lenin on Literature and Art”, p.129, Wildside Press LLC

• The progressive historical role of capitalism may be summed up in two brief propositions: increase in the productive forces of social labour, and the socialisation of that labour. But both these facts manifest themselves in extremely diverse processes in different branches of the national economy.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Two, Historical, Different

  "The Development of Capitalism in Russia". Book by Vladimir Lenin. Chapter VIII: "The Formation of the Home Market", www.marxists.org. 1899.

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