Marxist-Leninist Ideology Quotes

Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance.

Lenin was a Russian bourgeois who cursed the weakness and ineptitude of the Russian bourgeoisie

I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter.

As a political current, Maoism was always weak in Britain, confined largely to students from Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Scandinavia was awash with Maoism in the '70s. Sweden had Maoist groups with a combined membership and periphery of several thousand members, but it was Norway where Maoism became a genuine popular force and hegemonic in the culture.

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

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

Che came in 1963, shortly after I had come to power.

The Bolsheviks could not have retained power for two and a half months, let alone two and a half years, without the most rigorous and truly iron discipline in our Party.

I was not chosen to be president to restore capitalism to Cuba. I was elected to defend, maintain and continue to perfect socialism, not destroy it.

The DAR Forgets But the YCL Remembers.

I first interviewed Fidel Castro 39 years ago. He was charming and fiercely guarded about his private life. He called our interviews 'fiery debates.' During our times together, he made clear to me that he was an absolute dictator and that he was a staunch opponent of democracy.

If you are asking did I support the Soviet Union, yes I did. Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, and I think the disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my life.

I am for the Comintern from start to finish ... and if the Comintern finds itself criss-cross with my opinions, there is only one thing to do and that is to change my opinions to fit the policy of the Comintern.

We cannot fight communism all over the world, and I think we should have learned that lesson by now.

The Revolution did not assume a socialist nature because of support from the U.S.S.R.; it was the other way around: support from the U.S.S.R. was produced by the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution. To such a degree, that when the U.S.S.R. disappears, Cuba keeps on being socialist.

Raul Reyes was a good revolutionary. I knew him personally.

It is only the working class at the head of the masses, it is only the working class headed by its real Marxist-Leninist party, it is only the working class through armed revolution, through violence, that can and must bury the traitorous revisionists.

The Spanish Lenin

Fidel Castro just talked a long time, and he talked and he talked and he talked and he talked... and he talked during the meeting. I think it was about four hours. But I guess that's part of the Castro spirit.

We must accept that the phase of social development which began with the October Revolution has exhausted its driving force.

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

On the banner which you will be carrying in the victorious march of Communism, there is also a drop of my blood.

Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.

I was very much disturbed by Lenin's political ruthlessness