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• 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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• Peace, Land, and Bread! All power to the Soviet!

  Vladimir Lenin

  Land, Bread, Soviet

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• When we say "the state," the state is We, it is we, it is the proletariat, it is the advanced guard of the working class.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Class, States, Proletariat

  Speech, May 27, 1922.

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• 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

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• The reflection of nature in man's thought must be understood not lifelessly but in the eternal process of movement, the arising of contradictions and their solution.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Reflection, Men, Contradiction

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

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• Socialists cannot achieve their great aim without fighting against all oppression of nations.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Fighting, Oppression, Achieve

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• All countries will inevitably have to do what Russia has done.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Country, Russia, Done

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• Lenin, the greatest man of action in our century and at the same time the most selfless.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Time, Men, Selfless

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• History causes the military problem to become the essence of the political problem.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Military, Essence, Political

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• Our idea is that a state is strong when the people are politically conscious. It is strong when the people know everything, can form an opinion of everything, and do everything consciously.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Strong, Freedom, Ideas

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• When a war is waged by two opposing groups of robbers for the sake of deciding who shall have a freer hand to oppress more people, then the question of the origin of the war is of no real economic or political significance.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Real, War, Hands

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• When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward--or go back

  Vladimir Lenin

  Freedom Of Speech, Revolution, Mark

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• Behind the October Revolution there are more influential personalities than the thinkers and executors of Marxism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  October Revolution, Personality, Influential

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• You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Action, Mass

  "Collected Works" by Vladimir Lenin, Vol. 26, (p. 501), 1964.

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• It is stupid to tolerate Nikola; all Chekists have to be on alert to shoot anyone who doesn't turn up to work because of Nikola.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Stupid, Turns, Tolerate

  "Autopsy for an Empire". Book by Dmitri Volkogonov, p. 74, 1998.

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• All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.

  Vladimir Lenin

  War, Slavery, Relentless

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

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• The Bolsheviks could not have retained power for two and a half months, let alone two and a half years, without the most rigorous and truly iron discipline in our Party.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Party, Years, Two

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• An end to wars, peace among the nations, the cessation of pillaging and violence - such is our ideal, but only bourgeois sophists can seduce the masses with this ideal, if the latter is divorced from a direct and immediate call for revolutionary action.

  Vladimir Lenin

  War, Violence, Action

  "The Question of Peace". Book by Vladimir Lenin, Collected Works, Vol. 21, p. 293, July–August 1915.

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• Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd and reactionary both in the economic and the political sense.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Political, Democracy, Want

  "Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution". "Collected Works", 9, Marxists, (p. 29), 1905.

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• The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Moving, Men, Car

  "A Fate Worse than Debt". Book by Susan George, 1988.

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• The natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Materialism, Modern, Scientist

  "On the Significance of Militant Materialism". Pod Znamenem Marksizma No. 3. Collected Works, Vol. 33, pp. 227-236, www.marxists.org.

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• 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.

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• The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief: either to perish, or to catch up with the advanced countries and outdistance them, too, in economic matters.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Country, War, Relief

  "The Impending Catastrophe and How to Fight It". Book by Vladimir Lenin, 1917.

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• Every cook must learn to rule the State.

  Vladimir Lenin

  States, Cooks

  "Woman's Place by Florence Becker". New International, Vol. 2 No. 5, pp.175-176, August 1935.

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• It is at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Army, Needs, Lessons

  "“Left-Wing” Communism: an Infantile Disorder". Book by Vladimir Lenin, Vol. 31, 1920.

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