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Vladimir Lenin on Freedom

1870–1924 Russia

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While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

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)

For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom — freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.

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.

It is true that liberty is precious — so precious that it must be rationed.

Soviet Communism : A New Civilization? (1936)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Vladimir Lenin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.