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

— Vladimir Lenin April Thesis (1917)

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

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

The State and Revolution (1917)

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

Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.

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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