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The principal and primary function of banks is to serve as an intermediary in the making of payments. In doing so they transform inactive money capital into active capital, that is, into capital producing a profit; they collect all kinds of money revenues and place them at the disposal of the capitalist class.

— Vladimir Lenin Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917)

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Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.

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When we say "the state," the state is We, it is we, it is the proletariat, it is the advanced guard of the working class.

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