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| 2 | `V. I. Lenin`,`April Theses (1917)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/apr/04.htm`,`Abolition of the police, the army and the bureaucracy. The salaries of all officials, all of whom are elective and displaceable at any time, not to exceed the average wage of a competent worker.` |
| 3 | `V. I. Lenin`,`April Theses (1917)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/apr/04.htm`,`In our attitude towards the war, which under the new government of Lvov and Co. unquestionably remains on Russia’s part a predatory imperialist war owing to the capitalist nature of that government, not the slightest concession to “revolutionary defencism” is permissible.` |
| 4 | `V. I. Lenin`,`April Theses (1917)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/apr/04.htm`,`In view of the undoubted honesty of those broad sections of the mass believers in revolutionary defencism who accept the war only as a necessity, and not as a means of conquest, in view of the fact that they are being deceived by the bourgeoisie, it is necessary with particular thoroughness, persistence and patience to explain their error to them, and to prove that without overthrowing capital it is impossible to end the war by a truly democratic peace.` |
| 5 | `V. I. Lenin`,`April Theses (1917)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/apr/04.htm`,`It is not our immediate task to “introduce” socialism, but only to bring social production and the distribution of products at once under the control of the Soviets of Workers’ Deputies.` |
| 6 | `V. I. Lenin`,`April Theses (1917)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/apr/04.htm`,`It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.` |
| 7 | `V. I. Lenin`,`April Theses (1917)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/apr/04.htm`,`The masses must be made to see that the Sovietsof Workers’ Deputies are the only possible form of revolutionary government.` |
| 8 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Better fewer, but Better (1923)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1923/mar/02.htm`,`We must follow the rule: Better fewer, but better. We must follow the rule: Better get good human material in two or even three years than work in haste without hope of getting any at all.` |
| 9 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Can the Bolsheviks Retain State Power? (1917)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/oct/01.htm`,`To work, everybody to work, the cause of the world socialist revolution must and will triumph.` |
| 10 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Conspectus of Hegel’s Logic (1914)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/cons-logic/ch01.htm`,`Dialectics is the teaching which shows how Opposites can be and how they happen to be (how they become) identical,—under what conditions they are identical, becoming transformed into one another,—why the human mind should grasp these opposites not as dead, rigid, but as living, conditional, mobile, becoming transformed into one another.` |
| 11 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Conspectus of Hegel’s Logic (1914)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/cons-logic/ch01.htm`,`I am in general trying to read Hegel materialistically: Hegel is materialism which has been stood on its head (according to Engels) – that is to say, I cast aside for the most part God, the Absolute, the Pure Idea, etc. ` |
| 12 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Conspectus of Hegel’s Logic (1914)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/cons-logic/ch03.htm`,`It is impossible completely to understand Marx’s Capital, and especially its first Chapter, without having thoroughly studied and understood the whole of Hegel’s Logic. Consequently, half a century later none of the Marxists understood Marx!! ` |
| 13 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Conspectus of Hegel’s Logic (1914)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/cons-logic/ch03.htm`,`These parts of the work should be called: “a best means for getting a headache!” ` |
| 14 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1914)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/ch10.htm`,`Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by a handful of the richest or most powerful nations — all these have given birth to those distinctive characteristics of imperialism which compel us to define it as parasitic or decaying capitalism.` |
| 15 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1914)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/ch10.htm`,`When nine-tenths of Africa had been seized (by 1900), when the whole world had been divided up,there was inevitably ushered in the era of monopoly possession of colonies and, consequently, of particularly intense struggle for the division and the redivision of the world. ` |
| 16 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1914)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/pref02.htm`,`The war of 1914-18 was imperialist (that is, an annexationist, predatory, war of plunder) on the part of both sides; it was a war for the division of the world, for the partition and repartition of colonies and spheres of influence of finance capital.` |
| 17 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Letters on Tactics (1918)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/jun/29b.htm`,`The Bolshevik slogans and ideas on the whole have been confirmed by history; but concretely things have worked out differently; they are more original, more peculiar, more variated than anyone could have expected.. ` |
| 18 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Letters on Tactics (1918)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/jun/29b.htm`,`The passing of state power from one class to another is the first, the principal, the basic sign of a revolution, both in the strictly scientific and in the practical political meaning of that term. To this extent, the bourgeois, or the bourgeois-democratic, revolution in Russia is completed. ` |
| 19 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Letters on Tactics (1918)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/jun/29b.htm`,`“The revolutionary-democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and the peasantry” has already become a reality in the Russian revolution, for this “formula” envisages only a relation of classes, and not a concrete political institution implementing this relation. ` |
| 20 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Letter To A Joint Session Of The All-Russia Central Executive Committee (1918)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/oct/03.htm`,`The crisis in Germany has only begun. It will inevitably end in the transfer of political power to the German proletariat. The Russian proletariat is following events with the keenest attention and enthusiasm. Now even the blindest workers in the various countries will see that the Bolsheviks were right in basing their whole tactics on the support of the world workers’ revolution.` |
| 21 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Letter to Inessa Armand (1916)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/nov/25ia.htm`,`We Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not “in the name of capitalism, ” but in the name of clearing the path for our movement, which clearing is impossible without the development of capitalism. ` |
| 22 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Letter to the Congress (1922)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1922/dec/testamnt/congress.htm`,`Comrade Stalin, having become Secretary-General, has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using that authority with sufficient caution.` |
| 23 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Letter to the Congress (1922)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1922/dec/testamnt/congress.htm`,`Stalin is too rude and this defect, although quite tolerable in our midst and in dealing among us Communists, becomes intolerable in a Secretary-General. That is why I suggest that the comrades think about a way of removing Stalin from that post and appointing another man in his stead.` |
| 24 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Materialism and Empirio-Criticism (1908)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1908/mec/01.htm`,`1) Things exist independently of our consciousness, independently of our perceptions, outside of us, for it is beyond doubt that alizarin existed in coal tar yesterday and it is equally beyond doubt that yesterday we knew nothing of the existence of this alizarin and received no sensations from it.2) There is definitely no difference in principle between the phenomenon and the thing-in-itself, and there can be no such difference. The only difference is between what is known and what is not yet known. And philosophical inventions of specific boundaries between the one and the other, inventions to the effect that the thing-in-itself is “beyond” phenomena (Kant), or that we can and must fence ourselves off by some philosophical partition from the problem of a world which in one part or another is still unknown but which exists outside us (Hume)—all this is the sheerest nonsense, Schrulle, crotchet, invention.3) In the theory of knowledge, as in every other branch of science, we must think dialectically, that is, we must not regard our knowledge as ready-made and unalterable, but must determine how knowledge emerges from ignorance, how incomplete, inexact knowledge becomes more complete and more exact.` |
| 25 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Materialism and Empirio-Criticism (1908)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1908/mec/01.htm`,`Once we accept the point of view that human knowledge develops from ignorance, we shall find millions of examples of it just as simple as the discovery of alizarin in coal tar, millions of observations not only in the history of science and technology but in the everyday life of each and every one of us that illustrate the transformation of “things-in-themselves” into “things-for-us.” ` |
| 26 | `V. I. Lenin`,`New Tasks and New Forces (1905)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1905/mar/08.htm`,`In the beginning we had to teach the workers the ABC, both in the literal and in the figurative senses. Now the standard of political literacy has risen so gigantically that we can and should concentrate all our efforts on the more direct Social-Democratic objectives aimed at giving an organised direction to the revolutionary stream.` |
| 27 | `V. I. Lenin`,`One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, (1904)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1904/onestep/b.htm`,`If the Congress was a struggle between the Iskra-ist and the anti-Iskra-ist elements, were there no intermediate, unstable elements who vacillated between the two? Anyone at all familiar with our Party and with the picture generally presented by congresses of every kind will be inclined a priori to answer the question in the affirmative.` |
| 28 | `V. I. Lenin`,`One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, “Paragraph One of the Rules” (1904)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1904/onestep/i.htm`,`Are we to build the Party on the basis of that already formed and welded core of Social-Democrats which brought about the Party Congress, for instance, and which should enlarge and multiply Party organisations of all kinds; or are we to content ourselves with the soothing phrase that all who help are Party members? ` |
| 29 | `V. I. Lenin`,`One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, “Paragraph One of the Rules” (1904)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1904/onestep/i.htm`,`But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.` |
| 30 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Our Revolution (1923)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1923/jan/16.htm`,`If a definite level of culture is required for the building of socialism (although nobody can say just what that definite ‘level of culture’ is, for it differs in every Western European country), why cannot we began by first achieving the prerequisites for that definite level of culture in a revolutionary way, and then, with the aid of the workers’ and peasants’ government and Soviet system, proceed to overtake the other nations? ` |
| 31 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Our Revolution (1923)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1923/jan/16.htm`,`Napoleon, I think, wrote: “On s’engage et puis ... on voit.” rendered freely this means: “First engage in a serious battle and then see what happens. ” Well, we did first engage in a serious battle in October 1917. And now there can be no doubt that in the main we have been victorious. ` |
| 32 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Pages from a Diary (1923)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1923/jan/02.htm`,`Our schoolteacher should be raised to a standard he has never achieved, and cannot achieve, in bourgeois society. This is a truism and requires no proof. ` |
| 33 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Pages from a Diary (1923)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1923/jan/02.htm`,`While the bourgeois state methodically concentrates all its efforts on doping the urban workers, adapting all the literature published at state expense and at the expense of the tsarist and bourgeois parties for this purpose, we can and must utilise our political power to make the urban worker an effective vehicle of communist ideas among the rural proletariat. ` |
| 34 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Preface to Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1920)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/pref02.htm`,`Modern monopolist capitalism on a world-wide scale — imperialist wars are absolutely inevitable under such an economic system, as long as private property in the means of production exists.` |
| 35 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Preface to the Collection “Twelve Years” (1905)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1907/sep/pref1907.htm`,`The basic mistake made by those who now criticise What Is To Be Done? (1901) is to treat the pamphlet apart from its connection with the concrete historical situation of a definite, and now long past, period in the development of our Party.` |
| 36 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Prophetic Words (1918)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/jun/29b.htm`,`Let the “socialist” snivellers croak, let the bourgeoisie rage and fume, but only people who shut their eyes so as not to see, and stuff their ears so as not to hear, can fail to notice that all over the world the birth pangs of the old, capitalist society, which is pregnant with socialism, have begun. ` |
| 37 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Socialism and War (1915)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1915/s+w/ch01.htm`,`A revolutionary class cannot but wish for the defeat of its government in a reactionary war.` |
| 38 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Socialism and War (1915)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1915/s+w/ch01.htm`,`Convert the imperialist war into civil war.` |
| 39 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Socialism and War (1915)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1915/s+w/ch01.htm`,`If tomorrow, Morocco were to declare war on France, India on England, Persia or China on Russia, and so forth, those would be “just” “defensive” wars, irrespective of who attacked first; and every Socialist would sympathise with the victory of the oppressed, dependent, unequal states against the oppressing, slave-owning, predatory “great” powers.` |
| 40 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Socialism and War (1915)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1915/s+w/ch01.htm`,`Socialists cannot achieve their great aim without fighting against all oppression of nations.` |
| 41 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Socialism and War (1915)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1915/s+w/ch01.htm`,`Socialists must explain to the masses that they have no other road of salvation except the revolutionary overthrow of “their” governments, and that advantage must be taken of these governments’ embarrassments in the present war precisely for this purpose. ` |
| 42 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Socialism and War (1915)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1915/s+w/ch01.htm`,`The Socialists of oppressed nations must, in their turn, unfailingly fight for the complete (including organisational) unity of the workers of the oppressed and oppressing nationalities.` |
| 43 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Socialism and War (1915)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1915/s+w/ch01.htm`,`The working class cannot play its world-revolutionary role unless it wages a ruthless struggle against this renegacy. spinelessness, subservience to opportunism and unexampled vulgarization of the theories of Marxism.` |
| 44 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Socialism and War (1915)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1915/s+w/ch01.htm`,`War cannot be abolished unless classes are abolished and Socialism is created.` |
| 45 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Socialism and War (1915)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1915/s+w/ch01.htm`,`We fully regard civil wars, i.e., wars waged by the oppressed class against the oppressing class, slaves against slave-owners, serfs against land-owners, and wage-workers against the bourgeoisie, as legitimate, progressive and necessary.` |
| 46 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Socialsm and Religion (1905)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1905/dec/03.htm`,`Religion is one of the forms of spiritual oppression which everywhere weighs down heavily upon the masses of the people, over burdened by their perpetual work for others, by want and isolation. Impotence of the exploited classes in their struggle against the exploiters just as inevitably gives rise to the belief in a better life after death as impotence of the savage in his battle with nature gives rise to belief in gods, devils, miracles, and the like. Those who toil and live in want all their lives are taught by religion to be submissive and patient while here on earth, and to take comfort in the hope of a heavenly reward. But those who live by the labour of others are taught by religion to practise charity while on earth, thus offering them a very cheap way of justifying their entire existence as exploiters and selling them at a moderate price tickets to well-being in heaven. Religion is opium for the people. Religion is a sort of spiritual booze, in which the slaves of capital drown their human image, their demand for a life more or less worthy of man.` |
| 47 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Soviet Power and the Status of Women (1919)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1919/nov/06.htm`,`Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact, it screens the non-freedom and inferiority of women, the non-freedom and inferiority of the toilers and exploited.` |
| 48 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Soviet Power and the Status of Women (1919)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1919/nov/06.htm`,`Down with this contemptible fraud! There cannot be, nor is there nor will there ever be “equality” between the oppressed and the oppressors, between the exploited and the exploiters. There cannot be, nor is there nor will there ever be real “freedom” as long as there is no freedom for women from the privileges which the law grants to men, as long as there is no freedom for the workers from the yoke of capital, and no freedom for the toiling peasants from the yoke of the capitalists, landlords and merchants.` |
| 49 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Soviet Power and the Status of Women (1919)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1919/nov/06.htm`,`In the course of two years Soviet power in one of the most backward countries of Europe did more to emancipate women and to make their status equal to that of the “strong” sex than all the advanced, enlightened, “democratic” republics of the world did in the course of 130 years.` |
| 50 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Speech On The Agrarian Question November 14 (1917)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/nov/12.htm`,`A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the average political level of the masses.` |
| 51 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Speech On The Agrarian Question November 14 (1917)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/nov/12.htm`,`It is the duty of the revolution to put an end to compromise, and to put an end to compromise means taking the path of socialist revolution.` |
| 52 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Speech to Third All-Russia Congress of Textile Workers (1920)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/apr/19.htm`,`We must display determination, endurance, firmness and unanimity. We must stop at nothing. Everybody and everything must be used to save the rule of the workers and peasants, to save communism. ` |
| 53 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Summary of Dialectics (1914)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/cons-logic/summary.htm`,`Dialectics as living, many-sided knowledge (with the number of sides eternally increasing), with an infinite number of shades of every approach and approximation to reality (with a philosophical system growing into a whole out of each shade) ` |
| 54 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Summary of Dialectics (1914)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/cons-logic/summary.htm`,`Human knowledge is not (or does not follow) a straight line, but a curve, which endlessly approximates a series of circles, a spiral. Any fragment, segment, section of this curve can be transformed (transformed one-sidedly) into an independent, complete, straight line, which then (if one does not see the wood for the trees) leads into the quagmire, into clerical obscurantism (where it is anchored by the class interests of the ruling classes).` |
| 55 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Summary of Dialectics (1914)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/cons-logic/summary.htm`,`Philosophical idealism is only nonsense from the standpoint of crude, simple, metaphysical materialism. From the standpoint of dialectical materialism, on the other hand, philosophical idealism is a one-sided, exaggerated, development (inflation, distension) of one of the features, aspects, facets of knowledge, into an absolute, divorced from matter, from nature, apotheosised.` |
| 56 | `V. I. Lenin`,`The Development of Capitaism in Russia, The “The Mission of Capitalism” (1899)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1899/dcr8viii/viii8vi.htm`,`If the writer of these lines has succeeded in providing some material for clarifying these problems, he may regard his labours as not having been fruitless.` |
| 57 | `V. I. Lenin`,`The Development of Capitaism in Russia, The “The Mission of Capitalism” (1899)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1899/dcr8viii/viii8vi.htm`,`Perhaps the profoundest cause of disagreement with the Narodniks is the difference in our fundamental views on social and economic processes. When studying the latter, the Narodnik usually draws conclusions that point to some moral; he does not regard the diverse groups of persons taking part in production as creators of various forms of life; he does not set out to present the sum-total of social and economic relationships as the result of the mutual relations between these groups, which have different interests and different historical roles. ... ` |
| 58 | `V. I. Lenin`,`The Development of Capitaism in Russia, The “The Mission of Capitalism” (1899)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1899/dcr8viii/viii8vi.htm`,`The progressive historical role of capitalism may be summed up in two brief propositions: increase in the productive forces of social labour, and the socialisation of that labour. But both these facts manifest themselves in extremely diverse processes in different branches of the national economy. ` |
| 59 | `V. I. Lenin`,`The Immediate Task of the Soviet Government (1918)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/mar/x03.htm`,`The Russian is a bad worker compared with people in advanced countries. It could not be otherwise under the tsarist regime and in view of the persistence of the hangover from serfdom. The task that the Soviet government must set the people in all its scope is - learn to work. The Taylor system, the last word of capitalism in this respect, like all capitalist progress, is a combination of the refined brutality of bourgeois exploitation and a number of the greatest scientific achievements in the field.` |
| 60 | `V. I. Lenin`,`The Impending Catastrophe and How to Combat It (1917)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/ichtci/11.htm`,`Everybody talks about imperialism. But imperialism is merely monopoly capitalism.` |
| 61 | `V. I. Lenin`,`The Marxist Doctrine in Karl Marx: A Brief Biographical Sketch with an Exposition of Marxism (1914)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/granat/ch02.htm`,`Marx’s economic doctrine is the most profound, comprehensive and detailed confirmation and application of his theory.` |
| 62 | `V. I. Lenin`,`The Primitiveness of the Economists and the Organization of the Revolutionaries (1901)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witdb/iv.htm`,`This struggle must be organised, according to “all the rules of the art”, by people who are professionally engaged in revolutionary activity. The fact that the masses are spontaneously being drawn into the movement does not make the organisation of this struggle less necessary. On the contrary, it makes it more necessary. ` |
| 63 | `V. I. Lenin`,`The Recent Revolution in Natural Science and Philosophical Idealism (1908)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1908/mec/05.htm`,`It goes without saying that in examining the connection between one of the schools of modern physicists and the rebirth of philosophical idealism, it is far from being our intention to deal with specific physical theories. What interests us exclusively is the epistemological conclusions that follow from certain definite propositions and generally known discoveries. Our object, therefore, will be confined to explaining clearly the essence of the difference between these various trends and the relation in which they stand to the fundamental lines of philosophy.` |
| 64 | `V. I. Lenin`,`The Recent Revolution in Natural Science and Philosophical Idealism, Conclusion (1908)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1908/mec/concl.htm`,`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.` |
| 65 | `V. I. Lenin`,`The Significance of Militant Materialism (1922)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1922/mar/12.htm`,`Modern natural scientists (if they know how to seek, and if we learn to help them) will find in the Hegelian dialectics, materialistically interpreted, a series of answers to the philosophical problems which are being raised by the revolution in natural science.` |
| 66 | `V. I. Lenin`,`The Significance of Militant Materialism (1922)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1922/mar/12.htm`,`No natural science can hold its own in the struggle against the onslaught of bourgeois ideas and the restoration of the bourgeois world outlook unless it stands on solid philosophical ground. In order to hold his own in this struggle and carry it to a victorious finish, the natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist.` |
| 67 | `V. I. Lenin`,`The Significance of Militant Materialism (1922)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1922/mar/12.htm`,`One of the biggest and most dangerous mistakes made by Communists is the idea that a revolution can be made by revolutionaries alone. On the contrary, to be successful, all serious revolutionary work requires that the idea that revolutionaries are capable of playing the part only of the vanguard of the truly virile and advanced class must be understood and translated into action.` |
| 68 | `V. I. Lenin`,`The Significance of Militant Materialism (1922)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1922/mar/12.htm`,`The most important thing is to know how to awaken in the still undeveloped masses an intelligent attitude towards religious questions and an intelligent criticism of religions.` |
| 69 | `V. I. Lenin`,`The Significance of Militant Materialism (1922)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1922/mar/12.htm`,`Without an alliance with non-Communists in the most diverse spheres of activity there can be no question of any successful communist construction.` |
| 70 | `V. I. Lenin`,`The Slogans and Organisation of Social-Democratic Work (1919)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1911/dec/08.htm`,`The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive.` |
| 71 | `V. I. Lenin`,`The Tasks of the Proletariat in Our Revolution (1917)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/tasks/ch04.htm`,`The leaders of the petty bourgeoisie ‘mustÓ teach the people to trust the bourgeoisie. The proletarians must teach the people to distrust the bourgeoisie.` |
| 72 | `V. I. Lenin`,`The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism (1913)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/mar/x01.htm`,`All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.` |
| 73 | `V. I. Lenin`,`The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism (1913)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/mar/x01.htm`,`And there is only one way of smashing the resistance of those classes, and that is to find, in the very society which surrounds us, the forces which can-and, owing to their social position, must-constitute the power capable of sweeping away the old and creating the new, and to enlighten and organise those forces for the struggle.` |
| 74 | `V. I. Lenin`,`The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism (1913)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/mar/x01.htm`,`By destroying small-scale production, capital leads to an increase in productivity of labour and to the creation of a monopoly position for the associations of big capitalists.` |
| 75 | `V. I. Lenin`,`The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism (1913)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/mar/x01.htm`,`Capital, created by the labour of the worker, crushes the worker, ruining small proprietors and creating an army of unemployed.` |
| 76 | `V. I. Lenin`,`The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism (1913)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/mar/x01.htm`,`Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital.` |
| 77 | `V. I. Lenin`,`The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism (1913)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/mar/x01.htm`,`Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital.` |
| 78 | `V. I. Lenin`,`The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism (1913)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/mar/x01.htm`,`People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be until they have learnt to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises.` |
| 79 | `V. I. Lenin`,`The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism (1913)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/mar/x01.htm`,`The Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true. It is comprehensive and harmonious, and provides men with an integral world outlook irreconcilable with any form of superstition, reaction, or defence of bourgeois oppression. It is the legitimate successor to the best that man produced in the nineteenth century, as represented by German philosophy, English political economy and French socialism.` |
| 80 | `V. I. Lenin`,`The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism (1913)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/mar/x01.htm`,`When feudalism was overthrown and “free” capitalist society appeared in the world, it at once became apparent that this freedom meant a new system of oppression and exploitation of the working people.` |
| 81 | `V. I. Lenin`,`The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism (1913)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/mar/x01.htm`,`Where the bourgeois economists saw a relation between things (the exchange of one commodity for another) Marx revealed a relation between people. ` |
| 82 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Two Letters (1908)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1908/nov/13.htm`,`That today, when the wave has ebbed, there remain and will remain only real Marxists, does not frighten us but rejoices us. ` |
| 83 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Two Letters (1908)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1908/nov/13.htm`,`When the masses are digesting a new and exceptionally rich experience of direct revolutionary struggle, the theoretical struggle for a revolutionary outlook, i.e., for revolutionary Marxism, becomes the watchword of the day. ` |
| 84 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Two Tactics of Social Democracy (1905)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1905/tactics/ep-s1.htm`,`Social-Democracy, however, wants, on the contrary, to develop the class struggle of the proletariat to the point where the latter will take the leading part in the popular Russian revolution, i.e., will lead this revolution to a the democratic-dictatorship of the proletariat and the peasantry. ` |
| 85 | `V. I. Lenin`,`Unity (1914)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/may/30.htm`,`Unity must be won, and only the workers, the class-conscious workers themselves can win it – by stubborn and persistent effort.` |