VLADIMIR LENIN QUOTES VI

Russian revolutionary (1870-1924)

Behind the epistemological scholasticism of empirio-criticism one must not fail to see the struggle of parties in philosophy, a struggle which in the last analysis reflects the tendencies and ideology of the antagonistic classes in modern society.

VLADIMIR LENIN

"Conclusion", The Recent Revolution in Natural Science and Philosophical Idealism

Tags: philosophy


Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not at all our task to descend to the level of the "working masses."

VLADIMIR LENIN

"The Primitiveness of the Economists and the Organization of the Revolutionaries", What Is To Be Done?


When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward--or go back. He who now talks about the "freedom of the press" goes backward, and halts our headlong course toward Socialism.

VLADIMIR LENIN

speech in Smolny, Petrograd, November 17, 1917

Tags: freedom of speech


Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.

VLADIMIR LENIN

"L. N. Tolstoy and the Modern Labour Movement", Nash Put, November 28, 1910

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All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.

VLADIMIR LENIN

The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism

Tags: slavery


We stand for an alliance with all countries without exception.

VLADIMIR LENIN

interview with Karl Wiegand, February 18, 1920


In the two months following the revolution the industrialists have robbed the whole of Russia.

VLADIMIR LENIN

"War and Revolution", Collected Works


Where the bourgeois economists saw a relation between things (the exchange of one commodity for another) Marx revealed a relation between people.

VLADIMIR LENIN

The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism

Tags: Karl Marx