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Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.
The State and Revolution (1917)
The Bolsheviks will do everything to secure this peaceful development of the revolution.
Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.
When we say "the state," the state is We, it is we, it is the proletariat, it is the advanced guard of the working class.
Man's consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but creates it.
Victory will belong only to those who have faith in the people, those who are immersed in the life-giving spring of popular creativity.
Revolution alone can "put an end" to the bourgeois state. The state in general, i.e., the most complete democracy, can only "wither away".
The State and Revolution (1917)
One cannot live in society and be free from society.
Party Organization and Party Literature (1905)
The natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist.
We have the following of the majority of a class, the vanguard of the revolution, the vanguard of the people, which is capable of carrying the masses with it.
Every cook must learn to rule the State.
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!
The State and Revolution (1917)
Communism is emerging in positively every sphere of public life; its beginnings are to be seen literally on all sides.
Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder (1920)
For the state to wither away completely, complete communism is necessary.
The State and Revolution (1917)
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in the ancient Greek republics: freedom for the slave-owners.
The State and Revolution (1917)
The basic question of every revolution is that of state power.
The Dual Power (1917)
Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its power over nature.
Materialism and Empirio-Criticism (1908)
For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom — freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.
You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.