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1870–1924 Russia
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Russian: Владимир Ильич Ленин), born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Russian: Влади́мир Ильи́ч Ульянов) (22 April 1870 (10 April (O.S.)) – 21 January 1924) was a Russian revolutionary, the leader of the Bolshevik communist party, the first Premier of the Soviet Union and the main theorist of Leninism. He married the revolutionary Nadezhda Krupskaya in 1898.
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Communism cannot be imposed by force.
When we are victorious on a world scale I think we shall use gold for the purpose of building public lavatories in the streets of some of the largest cities of the world.
The only serious organizational principle the active workers of our movement can accept is strict secrecy, strict selection of members and the training of professional revolutionaries.
What is to be Done? (1902)
How “troublesome”! cried the liberal pig, which deems itself educated, but in fact is dirty, repulsive, overfat and smug...
It is in prison ... that one becomes a real revolutionary.
America has become one of the foremost countries in regard to the depth of the abyss which lies between the handful of arrogant multimillionaires who wallow in filth and luxury, and the millions of working people who constantly live on the verge of pauperism.
It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.
April Thesis (1917)
The D'Annunzian movement is perfectly and profoundly revolutionary, because D'Annunzio is a revolutionary.
A newspaper is not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, it is also a collective organiser.
What is to be Done? (1902)
It is still necessary to suppress the bourgeoisie and crush its resistance.
The State and Revolution (1917)
I am confident that the suppression of the Kazan Czechs and White Guards, and likewise of the bloodsucking kulaks who support them, will be a model of mercilessness.
The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside the mind.
Materialism and Empirio-Criticism (1908)
Political events are always very confused and complicated. They can be compared with a chain. To hold the whole chain you must grasp the main link. Not a link chosen at random.
You are known among us as a protector of the arts so you must remember that, of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.
It is necessary — secretly and urgently to prepare the terror. And on Tuesday we will decide whether it will be through SNK or otherwise.
Recovery proceeding excellently. Am sure that the crushing of the Kazan Czechs and whiteguards, as well as of the kulak extortioners supporting them, will be exemplarily ruthless.
We can't expect to get anywhere unless we resort to terrorism: speculators must be shot on the spot. Moreover, bandits must be dealt with just as resolutely: they must be shot on the spot.
The worker is becoming impoverished absolutely, i.e., he is actually becoming poorer than before; he is compelled to live worse, to eat worse, to suffer hunger more, and to live in basements and attics.
To be a materialist is to acknowledge objective truth, which is revealed to us by our sense organs.
Materialism and Empirio-Criticism (1908)
You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
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