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• 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

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• Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Land, Dwelling, Problem

  "Materials Relating to the Revision of the Party Programme". Collected Works, Volume 24, p. 455 - 480, www.marxists.org.

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• 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

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• We do not have time to play at "oppositions" at "conferences." We will keep our political opponents... whether open or disguised as "nonparty," in prison.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Play, Political, Opponents

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• Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Intelligent, People, Causes

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• Fascism is capitalism in decay.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Political, Decay, Politics

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• The soundest strategy in war is to postpone operations until the moral disintegration of the enemy renders the delivery of the mortal blow both possible and easy.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Military, War, Blow

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• We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Country, Real, Needs

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• By destroying the peasant economy and driving the peasant from the country to the town, the famine creates a proletariat... Furthermore the famine can and should be a progressive factor not only economically. It will force the peasant to reflect on the bases of the capitalist system, demolish faith in the tsar and tsarism, and consequently in due course make the victory of the revolution easier... Psychologically all this talk about feeding the starving and so on essentially reflects the usual sugary sentimentality of our intelligentsia.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Country, Victory, Towns

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

  Vladimir Lenin

  Rope, Capitalist, Sells

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• One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Reality, Trying, Radical

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• He who does not work shall not eat

  Vladimir Lenin

  Doe

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• Learning is never done without errors and defeat.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• 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

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• One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Wise, Men, Answers

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• Comrades! The kulak uprising in your five districts must be crushed without pity. You must make example of these people. (1) Hang (I mean hang publicly, so that people see it) at least 100 kulaks, rich bastards, and known bloodsuckers. (2) Publish their names. (3) Seize all their grain. (4) Single out the hostages per my instructions in yesterday's telegram. Do all this so that for miles around people see it all, understand it, tremble, and tell themselves that we are killing the bloodthirsty kulaks and that we will continue to do so ...Find tougher people.

  Vladimir Lenin

  War, Mean, Yesterday

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• Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Honesty, Freedom, Hypocrisy

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• Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Atheism, Propaganda, Program

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• No mercy for these enemies of the people, the enemies of socialism, the enemies of the working people! War to the death against the rich and their hangers-on, the bourgeois intellectuals; war on the rogues, the idlers and the rowdies!

  Vladimir Lenin

  War, People, Enemy

  "How to Organise Competition?". "Collected Works" by Vladimir Lenin , Vol. 26, (pp. 411, 414), 1999.

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• We must not depict socialism as if socialists will bring it to us on a plate all nicely dressed. That will never happen. Not a single problem of the class struggle has ever been solved in history except by violence. When violence is exercised by the working people, by the mass of exploited against the exploiters -- then we are for it!

  Vladimir Lenin

  Struggle, Class, People

  "Third All-Russia Congress Of Soviets Of Workers’, Soldiers’ And Peasants’ Deputies[". Pravda Nos. 9, 10 and 15, January 26-27 and February 02, 1918. Collected Works, Volume 26, pp. 459-461, www.marxists.org.

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• Any cook should be able to run the country.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Running, Country, Able

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• We must pursue the removal of church property by any means necessary in order to secure for ourselves a fund of several hundred million gold rubles.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Mean, Order, Church

  Letter to Comrade Molotov for the Politburo, March 19, 1922.

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• A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Class, Organization, Democracy

  State and Revolution (1919) ch. 4

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• Those who are opposed to armed uprising ... must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Uprising, Enemy, Coward

  "Communists: The Battle over the Tomb". The Time, content.time.com. April 24, 1964.

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• Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Communism, Communist, Bureaucrats

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