communistquotes/quotes/Vladimir Lenin/State and Revolution.csv

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2	`V. I. Lenin`,`State and Revolution (1917)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch01.htm`,`A standing army and police are the chief instruments of state power.`
3	`V. I. Lenin`,`State and Revolution (1917)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch01.htm`,`It is not done in modern socialist parties to talk or even think about the significance of this idea, — the “withering away” of the state.`
4	`V. I. Lenin`,`State and Revolution (1917)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch01.htm`,`Our Socialist-Revolutionaries and Mensheviks themselves share, and instil into the minds of the people, the false notion that universal suffrage “in the present-day state” is really capable of revealing the will of the majority of the working people and of securing its realization.`
5	`V. I. Lenin`,`State and Revolution (1917)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch03.htm`,`the working class must break up, smash the “ready-made state machinery,” and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it.`
6	`V. I. Lenin`,`State and Revolution (1917)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch05.htm`,`And so in capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The dictatorship of the proletariat, the period of transition to communism, will for the first time create democracy for the people, for the majority, along with the necessary suppression of the exploiters, of the minority.`
7	`V. I. Lenin`,`State and Revolution (1917)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch05.htm`,`Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.`
8	`V. I. Lenin`,`State and Revolution (1917)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch05.htm`,`Democracy is a form of the state, it represents, on the one hand, the organized, systematic use of force against persons; but, on the other hand, it signifies the formal recognition of equality of citizens, the equal right of all to determine the structure of, and to administer, the state. `
9	`V. I. Lenin`,`State and Revolution (1917)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch05.htm`,`The dictatorship of the proletariat, i.e., the organization of the vanguard of the oppressed as the ruling class for the purpose of suppressing the oppressors, cannot result merely in an expansion of democracy. Simultaneously with an immense expansion of democracy, which for the first time becomes democracy for the poor, democracy for the people, and not democracy for the money-bags, the dictatorship of the proletariat imposes a series of restrictions on the freedom of the oppressors, the exploiters, the capitalists. `
10	`V. I. Lenin`,`State and Revolution (1917)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch05.htm`,`The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament.`
11	`V. I. Lenin`,`State and Revolution (1917)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/preface.htm`,`The so-called Great Powers have long been exploiting and enslaving a whole number of small and weak nations. And the imperialist war is a war for the division and redivision of this kind of booty.`
12	`V. I. Lenin`,`The State and Revolution (1917)`,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch02.htm#s2`,`The Communist Manifesto gives a general summary of history, which compels us to regard the state as the organ of class rule and leads us to the inevitable conclusion that the proletariat cannot overthrow the bourgeoisie without first winning political power, without attaining political supremacy, without transforming the state into the “proletariat organized as the ruling class”; and that this proletarian state will begin to wither away immediately after its victory because the state is unnecessary and cannot exist in a society in which there are no class antagonisms. `
13	`V. I. Lenin`,`The State and Revolution (1917) `,`http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch05.htm`,`And so in capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The dictatorship of the proletariat, the period of transition to communism, will for the first time create democracy for the people, for the majority, along with the necessary suppression of the exploiters, of the minority. Communism alone is capable of providing really complete democracy, and the more complete it is, the sooner it will become unnecessary and wither away of its own accord.`