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In the history of modern socialism this is a phenomenon, that the strife of the various trends within the socialist movement has from national become international.

— Vladimir Lenin What is to be Done? (1902)

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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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