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 at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson.
Capital, created by the labour of the worker, crushes the worker, ruining small proprietors and creating an army of unemployed.
Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie.
If we can effectively kill the national pride and patriotism of just one generation, we will have won that country. Therefore, there must be continued propaganda abroad to undermine the loyalty of citizens in general, and teenagers in particular. By making drugs of various kinds readily available, by creating the necessary attitude of chaos, idleness and worthlessness, and by preparing him psychologically and politically, we can succeed.
Our power does not know liberty or justice. It is established on the destruction of the individual will.
When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.
While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.
Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
Truth is the most precious thing. That's why we should ration it.
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.
The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.
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.
False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.