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• We must follow the rule: Better fewer, but better. We must follow the rule: Better get good human material in two or even three years than work in haste without hope of getting any at all.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Years, Two, Haste

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• Behind the epistemological scholasticism of empirio-criticism one must not fail to see the struggle of parties in philosophy, a struggle which in the last analysis reflects the tendencies and ideology of the antagonistic classes in modern society.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Philosophy, Party, Struggle

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• Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Flare Up, Revolution, Brewing

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• It is not for nothing that Skaldin in one part of his book quotes Adam Smith: we have seen that both his views and the character of his arguments in many respects repeat the theses of that
  great ideologist of the progressive bourgeoisie.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Book, Character, Views

  "The Heritage We Renounce". Collected Works, Volume 2, pp. 491 - 534, www.marxists.org.

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• Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Serious, Mass, Millions

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• Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Learning, Cooking, Revolutionary

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• The working class must break up, smash the "ready-made state machinery," and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Class, Break, States

  "The State and Revolution". Book by Vladimir Lenin, 1917.

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• Human knowledge is not (or does not follow) a straight line, but a curve, which endlessly approximates a series of circles, a spiral. Any fragment, segment, section of this curve can be transformed (transformed one-sidedly) into an independent, complete, straight line, which then (if one does not see the wood for the trees) leads into the quagmire, into clerical obscurantism (where it is anchored by the class interests of the ruling classes).

  Vladimir Lenin

  Independent, Curves, Class

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• Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Unity, Opponents, Causes

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• Those who are really convinced that they have made progress in science would not demand freedom for the new views to continue side by side with the old, but the substitution of the new views for the old.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Views, Progress, Sides

  Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin, V. I. Lenin (1927). “Collected works of V. I. Lenin”

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• 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

  Thinking, Cities, Gold

  "The Importance Of Gold Now And After The Complete Victory Of Socialism". Pravda No. 251, November 6-7, 1921. Collected Works, Volume 33, pages 109-116, www.marxists.org.

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• 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

  Ideas, Peculiar, Expected

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• The Poor Peasants' Committees are necessary to fight the kulaks, the rich, the exploiters, who shackle the working peasants.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Fighting, Rich, Poor

  "Draft Of Telegram To All Soviets Of Deputies Concerning The Worker-Peasant Alliance". Collected Works, Volume 28, p. 58, www.marxists.org.

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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 the Economists look with sincere resentment upon all theoretical controversies, factional disagreements, broad political questions, plans for organising revolutionaries, etc.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Political, Criticism, Majority

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

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• The entire trend of development is towards abolition of coercive domination of one part of society over another.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Development, Trends, Domination

  V. I. Lenin (2008). “A Caricature of Marxism and Imperialist Economism”, p.48, Wildside Press LLC

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• 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

  Hands, Class, People

  "Report on the Activities of the Council of People's Commissars". Book by Vladimir Lenin, Collected Works, Vol. 26, pp. 459-61, January 24, 1918.

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• Recovery proceeding excellently. Am sure that the crushing of the Kazan Czechs and whiteguards, as well as of the kulak extortioners supporting them, will be exemplarily ruthless.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Crush, Recovery, Ruthless

  Telegram to Leon Trotsky on September 07, 1918. "The Cheka: Lenin's Political Police" by George Leggett, p. 119, 1981.

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• The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside the mind.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Philosophical, Reality, Mind

  "Materialism and Empirio-criticism: Critical Comments on a Reactionary Philosophy (1908)". Book by Vladimir Lenin. Chapter Five: "The Recent Revolution in Natural Science and Philosophical Idealism". Collected Works, Volume 14, www.marxists.org.

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• For any truth, if “overdone” (as Dietzgen Senior put it), if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its actual applicability, can be reduced to an absurdity, and is even bound to become an absurdity under these conditions.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Limits, Absurdity, Exaggerated

  "'Left-Wing' Communism: an Infantile Disorder". Article by Vladimir Lenin, www.marxists.org. 1920.

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• In the last analysis, productivity of labour is the most important, the principal thing for the victory of the new social system.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Victory, Important, Analysis

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• Every question "runs in a vicious circle" because political life as a whole is an endless chain consisting of an infinite number of links. The whole art of politics lies in finding and taking as firm a grip as we can of the link that is least likely to be struck from our hands, the one that is most important at the given moment, the one that most of all guarantees its possessor the possession of the whole chain.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Running, Art, Lying

  Vladimir Ilích Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin (1988). “What is to be done?”, Penguin Classics

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