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Quotes from April Thesis — Vladimir Lenin

1870–1924 Russia

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It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.

April Thesis (1917)

Abolition of the police, the army and the bureaucracy. The salaries of all officials, all of whom are elective and displaceable at any time, not to exceed the average wage of a competent worker.

April Thesis (1917)

Not a parliamentary republic—to return to a parliamentary republic from the Soviets of Workers’ Deputies would be a retrograde step—but a republic of Soviets.

April Thesis (1917)

The masses must be made to see that the Soviets of Workers' Deputies are the only possible form of revolutionary government.

April Thesis (1917)

It is not our immediate task to “introduce” socialism, but only to bring social production and the distribution of products at once under the control of the Soviets of Workers' Deputies.

April Thesis (1917)

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