Vladimir Lenin Quotes

Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society.

The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.

SOCIALISM—You have two cows, you give one to your neighbor; COMMUNISM—You have two cows, the government takes them both and gives you the milk; FASCISM—You have two cows, the government takes both and sells you the milk NAZISM—You have two cows, the government takes both and shoots you; CAPITALISM—You have two cows, you sell one and buy a bull; TRADE UNIONISM—You have two cows, they take them from you, shoot one, milk the other and throw the milk away; MORAL: Don't have anything to do with cows. They only bring you trouble.

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.

The Constituent Assembly ratifies the transfer of all banks to the ownership of the workers' and peasants' government as one of the conditions for the emancipation of the toiling masses from the yoke of capitalism.

We are unalterably opposed to any class government, whether it be the existing dictatorship of the plutocracy or the dictatorship of the proletariat. Both are essentially undemocratic and un-American. Both are destructive of private initiative liberty.

I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.

Leninism is Marxism of the era of imperialism and the proletarian revolution.

In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people.

In Democracy, man exploits man; in Communism, it's the other way round.

The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat.

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.

The People's democratic dictatorship needs the leadership of the working class. For it is only the working class that is most far-sighted, most selfless and most thoroughly revolutionary. The entire history of revolution proves that without the leadership of the working class revolution fails and that with the leadership of the working class revolution triumphs.

Capitalism is the way of the devil and exploitation. If you really want to look at things through the eyes of Jesus Christ -- who I think was the first socialist -- only socialism can really create a genuine society.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

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

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

It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative.

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism.

If being rightwing is thinking that Karl Marx's doctrine was a catastrophe for humanity, then I'm rightwing.

I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change.

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.

There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.