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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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“For any truth, if “overdone” (as Dietzgen Senior put it), if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its actual applicability, can be reduced to an absurdity, and is even bound to become an absurdity under these conditions.”

Ifs Limits Absurdity Exaggerated

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“We must not depict socialism as if socialists will bring it to us on a plate all nicely dressed. That will never happen. Not a single problem of the class struggle has ever been solved in history except by violence. When violence is exercised by the working people, by the mass of exploited against the exploiters -- then we are for it!”

People Ifs Problem Happens Class Struggle Violence Mass Socialism Plates Class Struggle

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.”

Ifs May Littles Bigs Differences

Book:Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh

Source: Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh

“Does not the whole history of socialism, particularly of French socialism, which is so rich in revolutionary striving, show us that when the working people themselves take power in their hands the ruling classes resort to unheard-of crimes and shootings if it is a matter of protecting their money-bags.”

People Ifs Doe Matter Whole Shows Hands Class Rich Crime Strive Socialism Shooting Revolutionary Bags Ruling Resorts Unheard

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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

“Where and when have riots and anarchy been provoked by wise measures? If the government had acted wisely, and if their measures had met the needs of the poor peasants, would there have been unrest among the peasant masses?”

Ifs Needs Has Beens Government Poor Wise Mets Mass Anarchy Peasants Riot Unrest Provoked

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“An end to wars, peace among the nations, the cessation of pillaging and violence - such is our ideal, but only bourgeois sophists can seduce the masses with this ideal, if the latter is divorced from a direct and immediate call for revolutionary action.”

Ifs War Ends Action Nations Violence Mass Ideals Direct Revolutionary Latter Divorced Bourgeois Peace War Seducing Pillaging

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“Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.”

Ifs Nations Revolutionary Cold War

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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.”

People Ifs Years Five Development Intellectual Hundred Socialism Permit Eugenics Socializing Intellectual Development

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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.”

Ifs Giving Should Stage Capitalism Should Have Definitions Revolutionary Imperialism Monopoly

Book:Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

Source: Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

“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).”

Ifs Humans Doe Interest Lines Class Tree Independent Series Woods Circles Transformed Sections Curves Ruling Fragments Straight Lines Spirals Human Knowledge Quagmire

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“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

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.”

Ifs Communism Communist Bureaucrats

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as the immediate task of the coming revolutionary action.”

People Ifs War Would Be Action Communication Mass Tasks Revolutionary Desperate Deceiving Bloody Concealed Extermination

Author:Vladimir Lenin

About the Author

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

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Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh TomakhRelated source material

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