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• It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Time, Insomnia, Law

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• The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief.

  Vladimir Lenin

  War, Relief, Alternatives

  "The Impending Catastrophe and How to Combat It". October 1917 pamphlet. Collected Works, Volume 25, pages 323-369,

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• In capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The dictatorship of the proletariat, the period of transition to communism, will for the first time create democracy for the people, for the majority, along with the necessary suppression of the exploiters, of the minority.

  Vladimir Lenin

  People, Democracy, Minorities

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

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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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• Face the truth squarely. In politics that is always the best and the only correct attitude.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Attitude, Freedom, Democracy

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Finals, Imperialism, Stage

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

  Vladimir Lenin

  Country, Russia, Done

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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