Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, alias Lenin, was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of the Russian Republic from 1917 to 1918, of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1918 to 1924, and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia and then the wider Soviet Union became a one-party communist state governed by the Russian Communist Party. Ideologically a Marxist, his political theories are known as Leninism...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionLeader
Date of Birth22 April 1870
CountryRussian Federation
The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.
It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.
Imperialism, in a sense, is the transition stage from capitalism to Socialism. . . . It is capitalism dying, not dead.
There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
I come to the categorical conclusion that precisely at this moment we must give battle to the Black Hundred clergy in the most decisive and merciless manner and crush its resistance with such brutality that it will not forget it for decades to come. The greater the number of representatives of the reactionary clergy and reactionary bourgeoisie we succeed in executing for this reason, the better.
Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.
The only one who doesn't make mistakes is the one who doesn't do anything.
Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact, it screens the non-freedom and inferiority of women, the non-freedom and inferiority of the toilers and exploited.
Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom.
A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the average political level of the masses.