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The proletarian revolution is impossible without the sympathy and support of the overwhelming majority of the working people.
For private property is sacred, and no one can be prohibited from buying, selling, exchanging or mortgaging shares, etc.
Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917)
Classes still remain, and will remain everywhere for years after the proletariat's conquest of power.
Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder (1920)
Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers.
We must '"go among all classes of the people" as theoreticians, as propagandists, as agitators and as organizers.
What is to be Done? (1902)
Do everything to demonstrate, and in the most emphatic manner, our sympathy for the Moslems, their autonomy, independence, etc.
All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake “public opinion” for the benefit of the bourgeoisie.
Long live the fraternal trust and fighting alliance of the workers of all nations in the struggle to overthrow capital.
The most dangerous thing during a retreat is panic.
To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong
What the Soviet Constitution gives us no other state has been able to give in two hundred years.
The principal feature of modern capitalism is the domination of monopolist combines of the big capitalists.
Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917)
The entire trend of development is towards abolition of coercive domination of one part of society over another.
The bourgeoisie are today evading taxation by bribery and through their connections; we must close all loopholes.
The whole of society will have become a single office and a single factory with equality of work an equality of pay.
The State and Revolution (1917)
It is logical to assert that all matter possesses a property which is essentially akin to sensation, the property of reflection.
The Commune is the form "at the discovered" by the proletarian revolution, under which to work out the economic emancipation of labor.
The State and Revolution (1917)
One may become a demagogue out of sheer political innocence.
What is to be Done? (1902)
No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself.
The proletarian vanguard has been won over ideologically.
Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder (1920)