When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price. Vladimir Lenin More Quotes by Vladimir Lenin More Quotes From Vladimir Lenin By destroying the peasant economy and driving the peasant from the country to the town, the famine creates a proletariat... Furthermore the famine can and should be a progressive factor not only economically. It will force the peasant to reflect on the bases of the capitalist system, demolish faith in the tsar and tsarism, and consequently in due course make the victory of the revolution easier... Psychologically all this talk about feeding the starving and so on essentially reflects the usual sugary sentimentality of our intelligentsia. Vladimir Lenin victory towns country In the last analysis, productivity of labour is the most important, the principal thing for the victory of the new social system. Vladimir Lenin victory analysis important It is essential to grasp the incontestable truth that a Marxist must take cognisance of real life, of the true facts of reality, and not cling to a theory of yesterday, which, like all theories, at best only outlines the main and the general, only comes near to embracing life in all its complexity. Vladimir Lenin essentials real yesterday The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves. Vladimir Lenin opposition best-way way Those who are opposed to armed uprising ... must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards. Vladimir Lenin uprising coward enemy War cannot be abolished unless classes are abolished. Vladimir Lenin class war Any cook should be able to run the country. Vladimir Lenin able running country A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another. Vladimir Lenin democracy organization class Truth is the most precious thing. That's why we should ration it. Vladimir Lenin propaganda truth-is should Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever. Vladimir Lenin giving children years 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 different historical two Sometimes quantity has a quality all its own. Vladimir Lenin quantity quality sometimes I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets. Vladimir Lenin wicked self men Face the truth squarely. In politics that is always the best and the only correct attitude. Vladimir Lenin democracy freedom attitude Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society. Vladimir Lenin rich minorities democracy Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this. Vladimir Lenin bureaucrats communist communism It is at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson. Vladimir Lenin army lessons needs False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction. Vladimir Lenin democracy freedom political You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman. Vladimir Lenin women rights doe For the complete extinction of the state, complete Communism is necessary. Vladimir Lenin extinction communism communication