Vladimir Lenin Quotes

The state is an instrument in the hands of the ruling class for suppressing the resistance of its class enemies.

State Socialism … may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by the government, regardless of individual choice. Marx, its founder, concluded that the only way to abolish the class monopolies was to centralize and consolidate all industrial and commercial interests, all productive and distributive agencies, in one vast monopoly in the hands of the State. The government must become banker, manufacturer, farmer, carrier, and merchant, and in these capacities must suffer no competition.

All socialism involves slavery.

There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

Communism is nonsense.

… a communist program

What is Communism? The Soviet Republic plus electrification.

Karl Marx made a great contribution to the liberation cause of mankind, and because of his immortal exploits his name is still enshrined in the hearts of the working class and peoples of all countries.

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

The objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman.

As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though I was playing the capitalist game.

Karl Marx predicted the eventual withering away of the state and the 'dictatorship of the proletariat,' when the people would rule, which was sheer fantasy because it was sheer fantasy because it was based on grossly erroneous assumptions about human nature, as history would repeatedly demonstrate.

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.

The working class must break up, smash the "ready-made state machinery," and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it.

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

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

Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.

The goal of socialism is communism.

I'm a Communist, fully convinced and dedicated to my cause.

There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country.

Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike.

The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.

We are the party of the Czechoslovak proletariat and our general headquarters are in Moscow.

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