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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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• Does not the whole history of socialism, particularly of French socialism, which is so rich in revolutionary striving, show us that when the working people themselves take power in their hands the ruling classes resort to unheard-of crimes and shootings if it is a matter of protecting their money-bags.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Hands, Class, People

  "Report on the Activities of the Council of People's Commissars". Book by Vladimir Lenin, Collected Works, Vol. 26, pp. 459-61, January 24, 1918.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Human knowledge is not (or does not follow) a straight line, but a curve, which endlessly approximates a series of circles, a spiral. Any fragment, segment, section of this curve can be transformed (transformed one-sidedly) into an independent, complete, straight line, which then (if one does not see the wood for the trees) leads into the quagmire, into clerical obscurantism (where it is anchored by the class interests of the ruling classes).

  Vladimir Lenin

  Independent, Curves, Class

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The working class must break up, smash the "ready-made state machinery," and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Class, Break, States

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

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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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• 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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• When we are victorious on a world scale I think we shall use gold for the purpose of building public lavatories in the streets of some of the largest cities of the world.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Thinking, Cities, Gold

  "The Importance Of Gold Now And After The Complete Victory Of Socialism". Pravda No. 251, November 6-7, 1921. Collected Works, Volume 33, pages 109-116, www.marxists.org.

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