Joseph Stalin Quotes

Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

I believe that Communism is necessary to the world, and I believe that the heroism of Russia has fired men's hopes in a way which was essential to the realization of Communism in the future. Regarded as a splendid attempt, without which ultimate success would have been very improbable, Bolshevism deserves the gratitude and admiration of all the progressive part of mankind.

To overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie and to establish the power of the proletariat in one country still does not signify the full victory of Socialism.

In their day, Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin represented the aspirations and demands of the exploited working masses, and the cause of socialism was inseparably linked with their names.

It is a very good thing, and a significant one too, to exterminate the bourgeoisie and capitalism in China.

The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.

Our party is a party of the proletarian revolution and the dictatorship of the proletariat. The proletarian revolution is the only solution of the labour problem and all our work must lead to this goal.

All power to the Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies.

What is Communism? The Soviet Republic plus electrification.

I knew that many things were wrong... I witnessed a great many injustices... But it was my revolutionary duty at the time not to criticize and not to help alien propaganda [against the Soviet Union], for at that time it was the only country where a revolution had been carried out and where Socialism had been built. I considered that propaganda should not be made against that country; that my duty was to make propaganda in my own country for Socialism.

In the final account, the fate of our republic will depend upon whether the masses of the peasantry will go hand in hand with the working class

The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.

In October 1917, we parted with the old world, rejecting it once and for all. We are moving toward a new world, a world of Communism. We shall never turn off that road.

It is the basic principle of Marxism that any attempt to reconcile capital and labor so that they both co-operate in peace and prosperity is a betrayal of communism.

It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution - real girl's talk.

A spectre is haunting Europe-the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies. Where is the Party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its opponents in power? Where the Opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?

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

I took part in what was actually the last eruption of Marxist internationalism.

Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically.

Communism will win.

First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.

Neither an ox nor a donkey is able to stop the progress of socialism.

I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.

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.

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.