The working class must break up, smash the "ready-made state machinery," and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it. Vladimir Lenin More Quotes by Vladimir Lenin More Quotes From Vladimir Lenin Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers. Vladimir Lenin failingmenpeople 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 politicalleaderexpression 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 materialismscientistmodern 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 contradictionreflectionmen All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery. Vladimir Lenin relentlessslaverywar The bourgeoisie incites the workers of one nation against those of another in the endeavour to keep them disunited. Vladimir Lenin bourgeoisieendeavorworkers Peace, Land, and Bread! All power to the Soviet! Vladimir Lenin sovietlandbread The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart. Vladimir Lenin cancerget-wellinspirational 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 reliefwarcountry 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 competitionsakegiving The Poor Peasants' Committees are necessary to fight the kulaks, the rich, the exploiters, who shackle the working peasants. Vladimir Lenin richpoorfighting Behind the October Revolution there are more influential personalities than the thinkers and executors of Marxism. Vladimir Lenin influentialoctober-revolutionpersonality The suppression of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without violent revolution. Vladimir Lenin violentrevolutionimpossible 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 definitionsshould-havegiving 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 philosophicalmindreality Where the bourgeois economists saw a relation between things (the exchange of one commodity for another) Marx revealed a relation between people. Vladimir Lenin commoditysawspeople The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic. Vladimir Lenin bourgeoisierepublicpolitical Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself. Vladimir Lenin poisonauthorityreality 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 curvesindependentclass 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-speechrevolutiontime
