Top 35 Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Quotes
#2. Capitalists can buy themselves out of any crisis, so long as they make the workers pay
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#5. I can't listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid nice things and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.
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#6. Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
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#7. 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?
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#8. America, like a few other nations, has become characteristic for the depth of the abyss that divide a handful of brutal millionaires who are stagnating in a mire of luxury, and millions of laboring starving men and women who are always staring want in the face.
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#9. Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers' cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.
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#10. This transformation of competition into monopoly is one of the most important - if not the most important - phenomena of modern capitalist economy,
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#11. In the history of modern socialism this is a phenomenon, that the strife of the various trends within the socialist movement has from national become international.
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#12. The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
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#13. While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State. Lenin, "State and Revolution",
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#14. All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.
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#15. And is it not sects, bodies of definite, uncompromising principles, that lead us into revolutions?
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#16. Official science tried, by a conspiracy of silence, to kill the works of Marx, who by a theoretical and historical analysis of capitalism had proved that free competition gives rise to the concentration of production, which, in turn, at a certain stage of development, leads to monopoly.
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#18. It is necessary sometimes to take one step backward to take two steps forward.
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#19. There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
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#20. Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not our task to descend to the level of the 'working masses'.
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#21. Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.
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#22. Capitalism has grown into a world system of colonial oppression and of the financial strangulation of the overwhelming majority of the population of the world by a handful of "advanced" countries. And this "booty" is shared between two or
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#24. It is more pleasant and useful to undertake the experience of revolution than to write about it.
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#26. It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
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#27. It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.
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#28. Socialism means keeping account of everything. You will have socialism if you take stock of every piece of iron and cloth.
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#29. Exchange, fair or unfair,always presupposes and includes the rule of the bourgeoisie.
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#30. There are no morals in politics; the is only experience. A scoundrel may be of use because he is a scoundrel
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#33. I am bound to accord you, in the name of free speech, the full right to shout, lie and write to your heart's content. But you are bound to grant me, in the name of freedom of association, the right to enter into, or withdraw from, association with people advocating this or that view.
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#34. Competition becomes transformed into monopoly. The result is immense progress in the socialisation of production. In particular, the process of technical invention and improvement becomes socialised.
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#35. One man with a gun can control 100 without one ... Make mass searches and hold executions for found arms.
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