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
It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.
Those who are opposed to armed uprising ... must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.
But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.
Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capitalism is established; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun, in which the division of all territories of the globe among the biggest capitalist powers has been completed.
Destroy the family, you destroy the country.
Face the truth squarely. In politics that is always the best and the only correct attitude.
No mercy for these enemies of the people, the enemies of socialism, the enemies of the working people! War to the death against the rich and their hangers-on, the bourgeois intellectuals; war on the rogues, the idlers and the rowdies!
Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.
Victory will belong only to those who have faith in the people, those who are immersed in the life-giving spring of popular creativity.
But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop, the greater is the concentration of production and capital which gives rise to monopoly?
Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are.
Crime is a product of social excess.
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.