Quotes from Vladimir Lenin

The intellectual forces of the workers and peasants are growing and getting stronger in their fight to overthrow the bourgeoisie and their accomplices, the educated classes, the lackeys of capital, who consider themselves the brains of the nation. In fact they are not its brains but its shit.

The feminine section of the proletarian army is of particularly great significance... the success of a revolution depends on the extent to which women take part in it.

It is necessary sometimes to take one step backward to take two steps forward.

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

We do not at all disagree with the anarchists on the question of the abolition of the state as an aim.

One must always strive to be as radical as reality itself.

Trust is good, control is better.

The revolution does not need historians.

Those who live by the labor of others are taught by religion to practice charity while on earth, thus offering them a very cheap way of justifying their entire existence as exploiters and selling them at a moderate price tickets to well-being in heaven. Religion is opium for the people. Religion is a sort of spiritual booze, in which the slaves of capital drown their human image, their demand for a life more or less worthy of man.

A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing that is possible. Revolution is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the other part by means of rifles, bayonets, and cannons, i.e. extremely authoritarian means

What is a liberal-democratic philistine? An empty gut, filled with cowardice.

At the basis of these swindles and manipulations lies socialised production; but the immense progress of humanity, which achieved this socialisation, goes to benefit the speculators.

I particularly approve of and welcome the arrest of millionaire saboteurs in the first and second-class railway carriage.

The bourgeoisie are today evading taxation by bribery and through their connections; we must close all loopholes.

But the subordination must be to the armed vanguard of all the exploited, of all the toilers, i.e., to the proletariat. Measures must be taken at once, overnight, to substitute for the specific methods of "official administration" by state officials the simple functions of "workmen and managers," functions which are already fully within the capacity of the average city dweller and can well be performed for "workmen's wages.

To decide once every few years which member of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament - such is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarianism, not only in parliamentary-constitutional monarchies, but also in the most democratic republics.

Por isso dizemos que para nós não há uma moral situada fora da sociedade humana; isso é um engano. Para nós, a moral está subordinada aos interesses da luta de classes do proletariado.

Under capitalism democratism is restricted, cramped, curtailed, mutilated by all the conditions of wage slavery and of the poverty and misery of the masses

Thus the Labour Party is a 'capitalist workers' party'.

Logic,' indeed!

Why should we bother to reply to Kautsky? He would reply to us, and we would have to reply to his reply. There's no end to that. It will be quite enough for us to announce that Kautsky is a traitor to the working class, and everyone will understand everything.

Bourgeois democracy, although a great historical advance in comparison with medievalism, always remains, and under capitalism is bound to remain, restricted, truncated, false and hypocritical, a paradise for the rich and a snare and deception for the exploited, for the poor.

Our party, like any other political party, strives for political supremacy for itself .