The 24 best famous quotes by Lenin

Marxist theorist and revolutionary, Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov left us great famous quotes.

Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov (1870 - 1924) is an essential figure to understand the evolution of European politics in the 20th century.

Russian politician, revolutionary and communist writer, he led the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party towards the October Revolution of 1917, which ended the rule of the tsars and inaugurated a period of socialism in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). His contribution to the theoretical legacy of Marxism is known as Leninism.

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Lenin's Phrases

Once in power, Lenin implemented several reforms to return to the state all those goods and means of production that until then were the fiefdom of a privileged few. His role in World War I was also controversial.

His fundamental role in understanding the Russian Revolution and his theoretical writings make Lenin a character that is an object of study in any faculty of social sciences. In today's article we will approach this historical figure through a compilation of Lenin's best phrases..

1. It is necessary to dream, but with the condition of believing in our dreams. To carefully examine real life, to confront our observation with our dreams, and to scrupulously realize our fantasy.

Historical materialism concentrated in a single famous quotation.

2. A small but useful work," Mr. Krivenko reasons with great depth, "is much better than a great leisure.

Everything that brings us closer to progress is welcome.

3. It is true that freedom is a precious thing, so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

Paradox about freedom, one of Vladimir Lenin's most remembered phrases.

4. Marxism is all-powerful because it is true.

On the ideals of Karl Marx, which Lenin made his own and developed.

5. Revolution is war, the only truly legitimate, just and great war, among those that history has known. In Russia, this war has been declared, and has begun.

Lenin's phrase pronounced in 1905, years before putting an end to the empire of the Czars.

6. One capitalist devours many others.

On the voracious character of the capitalist system.

7. The intelligentsia directs the enterprises of the manufacturers and can direct the popular industry.

Famous quote about factory owners.

8. Monopolies and similar institutions can and should, of course, be challenged, since they undoubtedly worsen the situation of the worker;....

On monopolies and oligopolies and their devastating effect on the economy of the employees.

9. That among Marxists there is not complete unanimity, it is true..., this fact does not prove the weakness, but precisely the strength and vitality of Russian social democracy.

On the different ideological currents that make up Marxism.

10. It is a truth that often in politics one learns from the enemy.

Knowing the strategy of the enemy gives good ideas to apply to one's own strategy.

11. There is no revolutionary theory without revolutionary practice and vice versa.

To move to action is the duty of any good theoretician. Theorizing is also the duty of any revolutionary.

12. The revolution is not made, but organized.

Peculiar view on the verb to be used.

13. So is the mercantile economy, which necessarily originates competition among the producers of commodities, inequality, the ruin of some and the enrichment of others.

On the endless loop of capital.

14. Imperialism arose as a direct development and continuation of the fundamental properties of capitalism.

One of Lenin's most commented and studied phrases.

15. The idea of determinism, which establishes the necessity of man's acts and rejects the absurd legend of free will, does not at all annul man's intelligence and conscience, nor the evaluation of his actions.

A particularly philosophical phrase.

16. That's Trotsky! Always true to himself; he revolts, swindles, poses to the left and helps the right.

Extract from a missive in which he makes clear his animosity towards Trotsky.

17. Except for power, everything is illusion.

Curious and mysterious phrase.

18. Marx conceives the social movement as a natural process governed by laws which are not only independent of the will, consciousness and intention of men, but which, moreover, determine their will, their consciousness and their intentions.

Reflection on some wise words of Karl Marx.

19. The State is the weapon of repression of one class over another.

His definition of the modern State.

20. If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem, act!

Perhaps Lenin's best remembered famous quote.

21. Capital becomes a hindrance to the mode of production that has prospered along with it and under its protection.

Another reflection on the functioning of capitalism.

22. The new means for control have been created not by us but by capitalism in its military-imperialist stage.

Imperialism, certainly, develops armaments and all kinds of devices for the control and repression of the population.

23. Furthermore, to abolish corporate profit it will be necessary to expropriate the bosses, whose profits come precisely from the fact that they have monopolized the means of production.

One of the basic precepts of Marxist doctrine.

24. Music can be a means for the rapid destruction of society.

Surprising reflection about music.