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• To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong.

  Vladimir Lenin

  World, Sometimes, Stride

  "The Junius Pamphlet". Sbornik Sotsial-Demokrata No. 1, October 1916. Collected Works, Volume 22, pages 305-319, www.marxists.org.

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• The nearer we come to the full military suppression of the bourgeoisie, the more dangerous becomes to us the high flood of petty-bourgeois Anarchism. And the struggle against these elements cannot be waged with propaganda and agitation alone. ... The struggle must also be waged by applying force and compulsion.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Military, Struggle, Agitation

  "he Guillotine At Work : Twenty Years of Terror In Russia". Book by Grigoriĭ Petrovich Maksimov, p. 38, 1940.

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• Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its power over nature.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Reason, Increase, Humans

  "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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• Democracy is a form of the state, it represents, on the one hand, the organized, systematic use of force against persons; but, on the other hand, it signifies the formal recognition of equality of citizens, the equal right of all to determine the structure of, and to administer, the state.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Hands, Democracy, Citizens

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• Act with the greatest determination and on the offensive. The defensive is the death of every armed rising.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Determination, Rising, Offensive

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• The most important thing is to know how to awaken in the still undeveloped masses an intelligent attitude towards religious questions and an intelligent criticism of religions.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Religious, Attitude, Intelligent

  V. I. Lenin (2008). “Lenin on Literature and Art”, p.147, Wildside Press LLC

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• Literature must become party literature. Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman of literature! Literature must become a part of the general cause of the proletariat.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Party, Literature, Causes

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• The majority of the so-called great powers have long been exploiting and enslaving a whole series of small and weak peoples. And the imperialist war is nothing other than a war for the division and redivision of this kind of booty.

  Vladimir Lenin

  War, Long, Majority

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• Freedom of speech and the press must be complete. But then freedom of association must be complete too.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Freedom Of Speech, Speech, Association

  V. I. Lenin (2008). “Lenin on Literature and Art”, p.24, Wildside Press LLC

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• We are not utopians, we do not “dream” of dispensing at once with all administration, with all subordination. These anarchist dreams, based upon incomprehension of the tasks of the proletarian dictatorship, are totally alien to Marxism, and, as a matter of fact, serve only to postpone the socialist revolution until people are different. No, we want the socialist revolution with people as they are now, with people who cannot dispense with subordination, control, and "foremen and accountants".

  Vladimir Lenin

  Dream, People, Different

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• One must not count in thousands, like the propagandist belonging to a small group that has not yet given leadership to the masses; in these circumstances one must count in millions and tens of millions.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Groups, Given, Mass

  V. I. Lenin (2008). “Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder”, p.92, Wildside Press LLC

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• I come to the categorical conclusion that precisely at this moment we must give battle to the Black Hundred clergy in the most decisive and merciless manner and crush its resistance with
  such brutality that it will not forget it for decades to come. The greater the number of representatives of the reactionary clergy and reactionary bourgeoisie we succeed in executing for
  this reason, the better.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Crush, Numbers, Giving

  Letter to Comrade Molotov for the Politburo on March 19, 1922. "The Unknown Lenin: From the Secret Archive". Book by Richard Pipes, p. 152-154, 1996.

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• 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

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• A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the average political level of the masses.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Party, Average, Class

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• Any army which does not train to use all the weapons, all the means and methods of warfare that the enemy possesses, or may possess, is behaving in an unwise or even criminal manner. This applies to politics even more than it does to the art of war.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Art, War, Mean

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• It is not difficult to be a revolutionary when revolution has already broken out and is in spate, when all people are joining the revolution just because they are carried away, because it is the vogue, and sometimes even from careerist motives. It is far more difficult--and far more precious--to be a revolutionary when the conditions for direct, open, really mass and really revolutionary struggle do not yet exist.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Struggle, People, Broken

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• To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Spiritual, Taken, Rely Upon

  "The Revolution Betrayed" by Lenin Trotsky, (p. 236), 2006.

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• Politics is the most concentrated expression of economics.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Freedom, Expression, Democracy

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• 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

  Country, Class, History

  Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (2012). “Essential Works of Lenin: "What Is to Be Done?" and Other Writings”, p.74, Courier Corporation

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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 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

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• One would like to stroke and caress human beings, but one dares not do so, because they bite.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Dare, Strokes, Caress

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

  Vladimir Lenin

  Dying, Transition, Socialism

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• We shall not bind ourselves by treaties. We shall not allow ourselves to be entangled by treaties. We reject all clauses on plunder and violence, but we shall welcome all clauses containing provisions for good-neighbourly relations and all economic agreements; we cannot reject these.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Agreement, Violence, Welcome

  "Concluding Speech Following the Discussion on the Report of Peace (October 26/November 8, 1917)". Collected Works, Volume 26, www.marxists.org.

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• Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Movement, Revolutionary, Theory

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• All extremes are bad. All that is good and useful, if carried to extremes, may become-and beyond a certain limit is bound to become-bad and injurious.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Freedom, Democracy, May

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