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Vladimir Lenin was a Russian revolutionary, politician, Marxist theorist, and one of the founders of the Soviet Union. He played a crucial role in the Russian Revolution, leading the October Revolution of 1917, which overthrew the Tsarist regime and established the Soviet power. Lenin's ideas and theories had a profound impact on international politics in the 20th century.

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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.”

Philosophy Hope Politics Freedom History Democracy Revolution Socialism Communism Individualism

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society.”

Democracy Rich Minorities Capitalist Insignificant

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“In capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The dictatorship of the proletariat, the period of transition to communism, will for the first time create democracy for the people, for the majority, along with the necessary suppression of the exploiters, of the minority.”

People Firsts Democracy Rich Periods First Time Majority Communism Minorities Transition Capitalist Dictatorship Wretched Suppression Proletariat

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“Democracy is a form of the state, it represents, on the one hand, the organized, systematic use of force against persons; but, on the other hand, it signifies the formal recognition of equality of citizens, the equal right of all to determine the structure of, and to administer, the state.”

Persons States Use Hands Form Force Democracy Citizens Equal Structure Determine Recognition Organized Formal Systematic Use Of Force

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“Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact, it screens the non-freedom and inferiority of women, the non-freedom and inferiority of the toilers and exploited.”

Facts Democracy Promise Screens Phrases Slogans Solemn Bourgeois Inferiority Pompous Freedom And Equality

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“We Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not "in the name of capitalism," but in the name of clearing the path for our movement, which clearing is impossible without the development of capitalism.”

Names Social Democracy Path Impossible Movement Development Capitalism Democrat Clearing

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“Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd and reactionary both in the economic and the political sense.”

Want Political Democracy Path Economic Socialism Absurd Conclusion Reactionaries

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“If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world by orations on class collaboration?”

Ifs World Should Mean Whole Class Democracy Essence Ministers Charm Collaboration Socialist Domination Bourgeois Abolition

Book:Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh

Source: Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh

“Democracy is indispensable to socialism.”

Liberty Democracy Historical Libertarian Socialism Libertarianism Indispensable

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“Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.”

Democracy Movement Theory Revolutionary Russian Revolution

Book:Essential Works of Lenin:

Source: Essential Works of Lenin:

“Politics is the most concentrated expression of economics.”

Freedom Democracy Expression Economics

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“All extremes are bad. All that is good and useful, if carried to extremes, may become-and beyond a certain limit is bound to become-bad and injurious.”

Ifs May Certain Freedom Democracy Limits Bounds Extremes

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“Face the truth squarely. In politics that is always the best and the only correct attitude.”

Faces Freedom Attitude Democracy Facing The Truth

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“False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.”

Political Freedom Moral Democracy Ruins Spells Rhetoric Extinction

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“Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.”

Freedom Results Democracy Honesty Weakness Hypocrisy

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“Our idea is that a state is strong when the people are politically conscious. It is strong when the people know everything, can form an opinion of everything, and do everything consciously.”

People Knows Ideas States Form Strong Freedom Opinion Democracy Conscious

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“Don't be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.”

Done Freedom Democracy Defeat

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“People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.”

People Has Beens Self Freedom Democracy Stupid Victim Deception Deceit Self Deception

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“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.”

States Use Class Democracy Violence Organization Majority Population Minorities Systematic Subjection

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“But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism to Communism.”

May Mean Courses Democracy Stage Communication Development Limits Capitalism Communism Feudalism

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“To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament-this is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarism, not only in parliamentary- constitutional monarchies, but also in the most democratic republics.”

People Years Real Class Democracy Members Essence Democratic Crush Republic Ruling Parliament Monarchy Bourgeois Parliamentary Constitutional Monarchy Democratic Republic

Book:The State And Revolution (Annotated)

Source: The State And Revolution (Annotated)

About the Author

Born: April 22, 1870
Died: January 21, 1924
Known for: Revolutionary
Quotes: 262

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