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

  Vladimir Lenin

  Land, Bread, Soviet

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Politics is the most concentrated expression of economics.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Freedom, Expression, Democracy

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

  Vladimir Lenin

  Fighting, Oppression, Achieve

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

  Vladimir Lenin

  Movement, Revolutionary, Theory

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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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• 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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• 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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