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'. Vladimir Lenin More Quotes by Vladimir Lenin More Quotes From Vladimir Lenin A political leader who desires to be useful to the revolutionary proletariat must be able to distinguish concrete cases of compromises that are inexcusable and are an expression of opportunism and treachery. Vladimir Lenin political leader expression 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 scientist modern 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 contradiction reflection men All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery. Vladimir Lenin relentless slavery war The bourgeoisie incites the workers of one nation against those of another in the endeavour to keep them disunited. Vladimir Lenin bourgeoisie endeavor workers Peace, Land, and Bread! All power to the Soviet! Vladimir Lenin soviet land bread The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart. Vladimir Lenin cancer get-well inspirational 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 relief war country 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 competition sake giving The Poor Peasants' Committees are necessary to fight the kulaks, the rich, the exploiters, who shackle the working peasants. Vladimir Lenin rich poor fighting Behind the October Revolution there are more influential personalities than the thinkers and executors of Marxism. Vladimir Lenin influential october-revolution personality The suppression of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without violent revolution. Vladimir Lenin violent revolution impossible 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 definitions should-have giving The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside the mind. Vladimir Lenin philosophical mind reality Where the bourgeois economists saw a relation between things (the exchange of one commodity for another) Marx revealed a relation between people. Vladimir Lenin commodity saws people The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic. Vladimir Lenin bourgeoisie republic political Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself. Vladimir Lenin poison authority reality 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 curves independent class When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism. Vladimir Lenin freedom-of-speech revolution time 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 cities gold thinking
