Vladimir Lenin Quotes About Revolution
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It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
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We are not utopians, we do not “dream” of dispensing at once with all administration, with all subordination. These anarchist dreams, based upon incomprehension of the tasks of the proletarian dictatorship, are totally alien to Marxism, and, as a matter of fact, serve only to postpone the socialist revolution until people are different. No, we want the socialist revolution with people as they are now, with people who cannot dispense with subordination, control, and "foremen and accountants".
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Behind the October Revolution there are more influential personalities than the thinkers and executors of Marxism.
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I don't care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.
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No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself.
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Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.
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By destroying the peasant economy and driving the peasant from the country to the town, the famine creates a proletariat... Furthermore the famine can and should be a progressive factor not only economically. It will force the peasant to reflect on the bases of the capitalist system, demolish faith in the tsar and tsarism, and consequently in due course make the victory of the revolution easier... Psychologically all this talk about feeding the starving and so on essentially reflects the usual sugary sentimentality of our intelligentsia.
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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 towards Socialism.
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When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward--or go back
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It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.
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One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and forceful interest in politics.
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It is not difficult to be a revolutionary when revolution has already broken out and is in spate, when all people are joining the revolution just because they are carried away, because it is the vogue, and sometimes even from careerist motives. It is far more difficult--and far more precious--to be a revolutionary when the conditions for direct, open, really mass and really revolutionary struggle do not yet exist.
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The suppression of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without violent revolution.
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A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.
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We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.
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How can you make a revolution without executions?
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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
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You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
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