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Vladimir Lenin on Revolution

1870–1924 Russia

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The Bolsheviks will do everything to secure this peaceful development of the revolution.

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)

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.

The basic question of every revolution is that of state power.

The Dual Power (1917)

The proletarian revolution is impossible without the sympathy and support of the overwhelming majority of the working people.

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)

No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself.

In the two months following the revolution the industrialists have robbed the whole of Russia.

I don't care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it ... All this is only the road to a World Revolution.

Attribution

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