Quotessence
Home / Authors / Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Lenin Quotes

Revolutionary

Filter quotes by topic

AllPeopleSocialismClassCommunismDemocracyPoliticalRevolutionRevolutionaryCapitalismMassWarStatesBourgeoisieIfsWorldMenPoliticsBourgeoisFreedomGiving

Famous Vladimir Lenin Quotes

“It is not difficult to be a revolutionary when revolution has already broken out and is in spate, when all people are joining the revolution just because they are carried away, because it is the vogue, and sometimes even from careerist motives. It is far more difficult--and far more precious--to be a revolutionary when the conditions for direct, open, really mass and really revolutionary struggle do not yet exist.”

PeopleSometimesDifficultStruggleConditionsBrokenRevolutionMassDirectRevolutionaryMotiveJoiningVogueCarried Away
Author:Vladimir Lenin
Create image

“We are not utopians, we do not “dream” of dispensing at once with all administration, with all subordination. These anarchist dreams, based upon incomprehension of the tasks of the proletarian dictatorship, are totally alien to Marxism, and, as a matter of fact, serve only to postpone the socialist revolution until people are different. No, we want the socialist revolution with people as they are now, with people who cannot dispense with subordination, control, and "foremen and accountants".”

PeopleWantDifferentMatterFactsDreamRevolutionTasksAliensAdministrationDictatorshipSocialistMarxismAnarchistMatter Of FactAccountantsSubordinationIncomprehension
Author:Vladimir Lenin
Create image

“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.”

ShouldCountryCoursesForceEconomyRevolutionVictoryEasierBasesTownsDuesDrivingFactorsProgressiveDestroyingUsualCapitalistFeedingStarvingPeasantsFamineSentimentalityProletariatDemolish
Author:Vladimir Lenin
Create image