Vladimir Lenin quotes - page 12

Generally speaking, under capitalism, the ownership of capital is separate from the application of capital to production; money capital is separate from industrial or productive capital; the rentier, living entirely on income obtained from money capital, is separated from the entrepreneur and from all those directly concerned in the management of capital. (Vladimir Lenin)
You must side with one of the two immensely wealthy and immensely powerful groups of imperialist predators - that is how capitalist reality poses the basic issue of present-day foreign policy. View quote
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This so-called bipartisan system prevailing in America and Britain has been one of the most powerful means of preventing the rise of an independent working-class, i.e., genuinely socialist, party. View quote
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Without an alliance with non-Communists in the most diverse spheres of activity there can be no question of any successful communist construction. View quote
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One may become a demagogue out of sheer political innocence. View quote
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No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses. View quote
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Fascism is capitalism in decay. View quote
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Democracy is indispensable to socialism. View quote
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A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution. View quote
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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. View quote
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Crime is a product of social excess. (Vladimir Lenin)
The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart. View quote
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Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin. View quote
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Any cook should be able to run the country. View quote
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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. View quote
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Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps. View quote
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It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. View quote
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The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death. View quote
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To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics. View quote
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Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism. View quote
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If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years. (Vladimir Lenin)
The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness. View quote
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Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country. View quote
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The big banks are the "state apparatus" which we need to bring about socialism, and which we take ready-made from capitalism' our task here is merely to lop off what capitalistically mutilates this excellent apparatus, to make it even bigger, even more democratic, even more comprehensive. Quantity will be transformed into quality. A single State Bank, the biggest of the big, with branches in every rural district, in every factory, will constitute as much as nine-tenths of the socialist apparatus. View quote
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Let us... take the most concrete example of state capitalism... It is Germany. Here we have the 'last word' in modern, large-scale capitalist engineering and planned organization, subordinated to Junker-bourgeois imperialism. Cross out the words in italics and [substitute] a Soviet state, that is, a proletarian state, and you will have the sum total of the conditions necessary for socialism. View quote
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