Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov Quotes

The class struggle is precisely that which resolves the contradictions between two opposed classes by abolishing them at the same time that it constitutes and reveals them as classes.

As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.

Every class struggle is a political struggle

History is made in the class struggle and not in bed.

The class struggle is the central conflict of the world; all others are incidental.

The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.

The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles.

In Russia bureaucracy as the ruling class is master of production and produce, and the Russian workers are an exploited class.

It is the historic mission of the working class to do away with capitalism.

Ever greater grows the mass of the proletariat, ever vaster the army of the unemployed, ever sharper the contrast between oppressors and oppressed, ever fiercer that war of classes between bourgeoisie and proletariat which divides modern society into two hostile camps and is the common characteristic of ever industrial country.

Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.

To begin to know the philosophy of socialism, in backward countries where the class differences are great, very great, and terribly exaggerated over the conditions we know in this country, to overcome this, the theory of revolution, of force and violence, was necessary within those political conditions. It couldn't be anything else.

All history has been a history of class struggles, of struggles between exploited and exploiting, between dominated and dominating classes at various stages of social development.

In the various stages of development which the struggle of working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the interests of the movement as a whole.

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

Every departure from class struggle has fatal results for the destiny of socialism.

In a really business-run society like the United States, the business elites are deeply committed to class struggle and are engaged in it all the time. They're instinctive Marxists.

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations.

The revolution... is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

Many workers already realize that the rule of the Socialist or Communist party will be only the concealed form of the rule of the bourgeois class in which the exploitation and suppression of the working class remains.

Overthrow the capitalist class.

It is the historical mission of the Communist International to be the gravedigger of bourgeois society.

Marxist revolutions generally happened in countries that otherwise could not have carried out an industrial revolution.