Pravda Quotes

I was very much disturbed by Lenin's political ruthlessness

Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.

Communism was not only defined as the things that Marx and Lenin had advocated, but included anything that had the potential for change in the society.

… the great mischief-maker Lenin

Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China - the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.

I'm a Leninist. Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that's my goal, too.

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

I suspect in Lenin's works there's everything, if you search well.

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.

I am proud that I have devoted all my life to the struggle for the triumph of Leninism.

I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

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

I was born in 1948, so I'm a '60s kid, and in the '60s everyone talked all the time, endlessly, about socialism versus capitalism, about political choices, ideology, Marxism, revolution, 'the system' and so on.

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

I'm just a Bolshevik with a laptop.

It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.

At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political.

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.

Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.

Ten days that shook the world.

Communism is nonsense.

Soviet power, at the head of which Ilyich (Lenin) then stood, was faced with the problem of creating a type of state machinery such as the world had never before seen, one which relied on the masses and which would remake the entire social fabric in a new, socialist way, and reshape all human relations. First of all, however, it was necessary to defend Soviet power against the enemy's attempts to overthrow it by force, and to undermine it from within. We had to strengthen our ranks.

Lenin strove constantly to get the people to understand that the leaders could not do everything for them, that they them-selves, with their own hands, would have to build a new life and defend their own state; in this he proved himself to be a real people's leader, able to show the people the way forward and induce them to take the first step forward fully conscious of their aim, instead of following blindly behind the leaders.