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• Unity must be won, and only the workers, the class-conscious workers themselves can win it - by stubborn and persistent effort.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Winning, Class, Effort

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• The status of women up to now has been compared to that of a slave; women have been tied to the home, and only socialism can save them from this. They will only be completely emancipated when we change from small-scale individual farming to collective farming and collective working of the land.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Home, Land, Socialism

  "First All-Russia Congress of Working Women". Speech on November 19, 1918, published on Pravda No. 253, November 22, 1918. Collected Works, Volume 28, pages 180-182, www.marxists.org.

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• Chess is only a recreation and not an occupation.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Occupation, Chess, Recreation

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• Where and when have riots and anarchy been provoked by wise measures? If the government had acted wisely, and if their measures had met the needs of the poor peasants, would there have been unrest among the peasant masses?

  Vladimir Lenin

  Wise, Government, Needs

  "Report on Land". Speech at Second All-Russia Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies on October 26 (November 8) 1917. Collected Works, Volume 26, www.marxists.org.

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• If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world by orations on class collaboration?

  Vladimir Lenin

  Mean, Essence, Class

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

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• Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Eugenics, Socialism, Communism

  Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (2012). “Essential Works of Lenin: "What Is to Be Done?" and Other Writings”, p.361, Courier Corporation

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• Where the bourgeois economists saw a relation between things (the exchange of one commodity for another) Marx revealed a relation between people.

  Vladimir Lenin

  People, Saws, Commodity

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• No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Revolution

  "Report at a Joint Session of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee, The Moscow Soviet, Factory Committees and Trade Unions". Pravda No. 229, October 23, 1918. Collected Works, Volume 28, pp. 113 - 126, www.marxists.org.

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• No Bolshevik, no Communist, no intelligent socialist has ever entertained the idea of violence against the middle peasants. All socialists have always spoken of agreement with them and of
  their gradual and voluntary transition to socialism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Intelligent, Agreement, Ideas

  "Reply to a Peasant's Question". "Collected Works" by Vladimir Lenin, Vol. 36, (p. 501), www.marxists.org. 1971.

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• Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Struggle, Class, Evil

  V. I. Lenin (2008). “Lenin on Literature and Art”, p.51, Wildside Press LLC

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• I must say that the tasks of the youth in general, and of the Young Communist Leagues and all other organisations in particular, might be summed up in a single word: learn.

  Vladimir Lenin

  League, Tasks, Might

  V. I. Lenin (2008). “Lenin on Literature and Art”, p.126, Wildside Press LLC

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• Human thought by its nature is capable of giving, and does give, absolute truth, which is compounded of a sum-total of relative truths.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Giving, Doe, Absolute Truth

  "Materialism and Empirio-criticism: Critical Comments on a Reactionary Philosophy (1908)". Book by Vladimir Lenin. Chapter Two: "The Theory of Knowledge of Empirio-Criticism and of Dialectical Materialism". Collected Works, Volume 14, www.marxists.org.

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• To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament-this is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarism, not only in parliamentary- constitutional monarchies, but also in the most democratic republics.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Crush, Real, Years

  Vladimir Lenin (2017). “The State And Revolution (Annotated)”, p.55, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Country, Power, Socialism

  Report on the Work of the Council of People's Commissars, 22 Dec. 1920

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• The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Inspirational, Get Well, Cancer

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• It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Writing, Revolution, Pleasant

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• International unity of the workers is more important than the national.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Unity, Important, Workers

  "Collected Works" by Vladimir Lenin, Vol. 35, (pp. 246-247),

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• Let the "socialist" snivellers croak, let the bourgeoisie rage and fume, but only people who shut their eyes so as not to see, and stuff their ears so as not to hear, can fail to notice that all over the world the birth pangs of the old, capitalist society, which is pregnant with socialism, have begun.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Eye, People, Bourgeoisie

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• The bourgeoisie incites the workers of one nation against those of another in the endeavour to keep them disunited.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Bourgeoisie, Endeavor, Workers

  "Capitalism and Workers’ Immigration". "Collected Works" by Vladimir Lenin, Vol. 24, www.marxists.org. 1977.

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• Materialism is the recognition of "objects in themselves", or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Ideas, Mind, Recognition

  "Materialism and Empirio-criticism: Critical Comments on a Reactionary Philosophy (1908)". Book by Vladimir Lenin. Introduction. Collected Works, Volume 14, www.marxists.org.

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• Victory will belong only to those who have faith in the people, those who are immersed in the life-giving spring of popular creativity.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Spring, Creativity, People

  "Meeting Of The All-Russia Central Executive Committee". Book by Vladimir Lenin, Collected Works, Vol. 26, pp. 285-293, www.marxists.org. November 4, 1917.

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• Hundreds of thousands and millions of wage slaves of capital and peasants downtrodden by the serf-owners are going to the slaughter for the dynastic interests of a handful of crowned brigands, for the profits of the bourgeoisie in its drive to plunder foreign lands.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Land, Bourgeoisie, Slave

  "Collected Works, Vol. 41". Book by Vladimir Lenin, 1960.

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• Ideological talk and phrase mongering about political liberties should be disposed with; all that is just mere chatter and phrase mongering. We should get away from those phrases.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Political, Liberty, Phrases

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• The whole struggle of our Party (and of the working class movement in Europe generally) must be directed against opportunism. The latter is not a current of opinion, not a tendency; it (opportunism) has now become the organised tool of the bourgeoisie within the working class movement.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Party, Struggle, Europe

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• For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Time, Real, Bread

  "Economics And Politics In The Era Of The Dictatorship Of The Proletariat". Pravda, No. 250, November 07, 1919. Collected Works, Volume 30, pages 107-117, www.marxists.org.

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