Vladimir Lenin Quotes
Quotes by Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin - leader of the Bolshevik party,
the first Premier of the Soviet Union, and the main theorist of Leninism.
Political Tyranny

"Fascism is capitalism in decay."

"Crime is a product of social excess."

"Sometimes - history needs a push."

"One man with a gun can control 100 without one."

"One cannot live in society and be free from society."

"Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism."

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

"For the state to wither away completely, complete communism is necessary."

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

"Not a single problem of the class struggle has ever been solved in history except by violence."

"Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.

When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state."

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

"What a waste that we lost Mussolini. He is a first-rate man who would have led our party to power in Italy."

"Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps."

"The entire trend of development is towards abolition of coercive domination of one part of society over another."

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

"No Bolshevik, no Communist, no intelligent socialist has ever entertained the idea of violence against the middle peasants."

"You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind."

"The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses."

"A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution."

"Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners."

"We would like to hope that developments in world socialism will increasingly remove the grounds for this difference between us."

"If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism."

"What caused the war? The greed of the Italian money bags and capitalists, who need new markets and new achievements for Italian imperialism."

"If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years."

"When we are victorious on a world scale I think we shall use gold for the purpose of building public lavatories in the streets of some of the largest cities of the world."

"To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong."

"Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes."

"All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake “public opinion” for the benefit of the bourgeoisie."

"When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the "freedom of the press" goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism."

"Our aim is to achieve a socialist system of society, which, by eliminating the division of mankind into classes, by eliminating all exploitation of man by man and nation by nation, will inevitably eliminate the very possibility of war."

"Complete equality of rights for all nations; the right of nations to self-determination; the unity of the workers of all nations—such is the national programme that Marxism, the experience of the whole world, and the experience of Russia, teach the workers."

"America has become one of the foremost countries in regard to the depth of the abyss which lies between the handful of arrogant multimillionaires who wallow in filth and luxury, and the millions of working people who constantly live on the verge of pauperism."

"The status of women up to now has been compared to that of a slave; women have been tied to the home, and only socialism can save them from this. They will only be completely emancipated when we change from small-scale individual farming to collective farming and collective working of the land."

"Does not the whole history of socialism, particularly of French socialism, which is so rich in revolutionary striving, show us that when the working people themselves take power in their hands the ruling classes resort to unheard-of crimes and shootings if it is a matter of protecting their money-bags."

"Modern militarism is the result of capitalism. In both its forms it is the “vital expression” of capitalism—as a military force used by the capitalist states in their external conflicts and as a weapon in the hands of the ruling classes for suppressing every kind of movement, economic and political, of the proletariat."

"Not a single problem of the class struggle has ever been solved in history except by violence. When violence is exercised by the working people, by the mass of exploited against the exploiters — then we are for it! ... The class struggle did not accidentally assume its latest form, the form in which the exploited class takes all the means of power in its own hands in order to completely destroy its class enemy, the bourgeoisie..."

"Present-day society is wholly based on the exploitation of the vast masses of the working class by a tiny minority of the population, the class of the landowners and that of the capitalists. It is a slave society, since the “free” workers, who all their life work for the capitalists, are “entitled” only to such means of subsistence as are essential for the maintenance of slaves who produce profit, for the safeguarding and perpetuation of capitalist slavery."

"We want to achieve a new and better order of society: in this new and better society there must be neither rich nor poor; all will have to work. Not a handful of rich people, but all the working people must enjoy the fruits of their common labour. Machines and other improvements must serve to ease the work of all and not to enable a few to grow rich at the expense of millions and tens of millions of people. This new and better society is called socialist society."

"Disorderly, unorganised and petty terrorist acts may, if carried to extremes, only scatter and squander our forces. That is a fact, which, of course, should not be forgotten. On the other hand, under no circumstances should it be forgotten that a slogan calling for an uprising has already been issued, that the uprising has already begun. To launch attacks under favourable circumstances is not only every revolutionary’s right, but his plain duty. The killing of spies, policemen, gendarmes, the blowing up of police stations, the liberation of prisoners, the seizure of government funds for the needs of the uprising — such operations are already being carried out wherever insurrection is rife."

Compiled by Thomas George
editor@Liberty-vs-Tyranny.com/

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