Quotes About Lenin

We say primarily that the priority of this struggle is class. That Marx and Lenin and Che Guevara and Mao Tse-Tung, and anybody else who ever said or knew or practiced anything about revolution, always said that a revolution is a class struggle.

It will be necessary to repeat the year 1793," wrote Lenin. "After achieving power, we'll be considered monsters, but we couldn't care less."22 Lenin and his self-described group of "glorious Jacobins" would monstrously do just that, and, indeed, could not care less.

Like Lenin before them, and the cultural Marxists that followed, they saw education as indispensable to inculcating their far-left agenda. "Give me four years to teach the children," asserted Lenin, "and the seed I have sown shall never be uprooted."448

Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, and a long line of implementers candidly admitted that force and violence would be necessary. In the close of the Manifesto, Marx said, "The Communists … openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions" (italics added).

The so-called cultural element of Western Europe and America," averred Lenin, speaking of the elite, "are incapable of comprehending the present state of affairs and the actual balance of forces; these elements must be regarded as deaf-mutes [idiots] and treated accordingly." These so-called useful idiots—the title of a bestselling book on the Cold War by Mona Charen9—were to be major components of the Communists' campaigns.

Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!

He is no Socialist who will not sacrifice his Fatherland for the triumph of the Social Revolution.'—LENIN.

In the middle of April the Germans took a sombre decision. Ludendorff refers to it with bated breath. ... They transported Lenin in a sealed truck like a plague bacillus from Switzerland into Russia.

Lenin was to Karl Marx what Omar was to Mahomet. He translated faith into acts. He devised the practical methods by which the Marxian theories could be applied in his own time.

Lenin in a top hat and frock coat would be a far greater anomaly than the Grand Lama of Thibet or a Zulu chief in that costume.

Revolution consists not in the new class commanding, governing with the aid of the old state machine, but in this class smashing this machine and commanding, governing with the aid of a new machine.

Within two years of Lenin's edict more than thirty bishops and 1,200 priests had been killed and thousands more jailed.

The public Lenin adopted a highly populist style of politics that would be recognisable – and imitated by many a rabble-rouser – a hundred years later, even in long-established, sophisticated democracies. He offered simple solutions to complex problems. He lied unashamedly.

Marx made theory... Lenin applied it with his sense of large-scale social organization... And Henry Ford made the work of the socialist state possible.

This transformation of competition into monopoly is one of the most important—if not the most important—phenomena of modern capitalist economy,

Imperialism is the eve of the social revolution of the proletariat. This has been confirmed since 1917 on a world-wide scale. N. Lenin July 6, 1920

What a waste that we lost Mussolini. He is a first-rate man who would have led our party to power in Italy. [Addressing to a delegation of Italian socialists in Moscow after Mussolini's March on Rome in 1922]

"The revolution's decisive victory over tsarism" means the establishment of the revolutionary-democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and the peasantry.

The bourgeoisie is many times stronger than we. To give it the weapon of freedom of the press is to ease the enemy's cause, to help the class enemy. We do not desire to end in suicide, so we will not do this.

All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.

Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.

And is it not sects, bodies of definite, uncompromising principles, that lead us into revolutions?

Federal Switzerlandization would be a huge step backwards for Germany. Two

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.