The 80 best phrases of Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov)
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known simply as Lenin, was one of the most recognized figures of the communist movement in the history due to his participation in the Russian revolution against tsarism by leading the Social Democratic Workers' Party in the year 1917. Bringing a completely different ideology where the people got more power and recognition (theoretically), even his contributions to Marxism were declared as a current called Leninism. Let's look at the quotes of this man who caused the communist regime to be established.
Great quotes from Lenin
Despite the fact that the communist regime brought great misfortunes to his people, Lenin left some reflections that he is worth rescuing.
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 carry out our fantasy.
There is no use dreaming if we will not do everything possible to make that dream come true.
2. Without revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary movement either.
Every practice has its theory well founded.
3. Music can be a medium for the rapid destruction of society.
Music carries messages in a massive way.
4. Each man must choose between joining our side or the other side. Any attempt to avoid taking sides on this issue must end in fiasco.
They say that in politics, you are on one side or the other. Never in the middle.
5. The victory of the revolution will be the dictatorship of the proletariat and the peasantry.
Glory for some is destruction for others.
6. It is a truth that is often learned from the enemy in politics.
The rivals teach to improve each planned move, in order to be victorious.
7. The working masses have found the practical form of the dictatorship.
The workers are the ones who perish the most in dictatorships.
8. Fascism is decaying capitalism.
Another side of the same coin.
9. If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem, act!
If you do not seek to help, then do not hinder the work of others.
10. When he shook the hand of the French royalist, we knew very well that we would both feel great satisfaction seeing the other partner hanged.
Speaking of standing in front of the enemy.
11. Except for power, everything is illusion.
In politics, it's all about power.
12. The revolution is not made, but is organized.
Not because they are called revolutions or movements, does it imply that it is chaos.
13. Furthermore, in order to abolish corporate profit it will be necessary to expropriate the employers, whose profits come precisely from the fact that they have monopolized the means of production.
For Lenin, the proper way to prosper economically is for everyone to have the same opportunities.
14. The dictatorship of the proletariat! Words that until now sounded in Latin for the masses.
Repression finds its power in the ignorance of the people.
15. The peasant and the artisan are small producers in the "categorical" sense of the phrase, that is, petty bourgeois.
For the bourgeois, people of value are those who contribute to their pockets.
16. There is no Marx that lasts a hundred years.
Lenin believed that Marxist thought should evolve over time.
17. There is no morality in politics, there is only convenience. A scoundrel can be of use to us because he is a scoundrel.
A clear statement of what is hidden in politics.
18. Socialism is simply a state of monopoly capitalism that is made to serve the interests of the common good and that up to that point, has ceased to be a capitalist monopoly.
His opinion on socialism.
19. The State is the weapon of repression of one class over another.
The state tends to divide its people according to their status.
20. Really, losing sight of the class struggle shows the grossest misunderstanding of Marxism.
Maintaining the idea of social classes goes against Marxist foundations.
21. The new means of control have been created not by us but by capitalism in its military-imperialist stage.
Imperialism looking for any way to rule.
22. Thanks to the spread of the Soviet system throughout the world, this Latin has been translated into all modern languages; the working masses have found the practical form of dictatorship.
With his revolution, Lenin tried to give knowledge of the power that the people have.
23. In the lifetime of the great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes subject them to constant persecution, welcome their doctrines with the wildest rage, with the fiercest hatred, with the wildest campaign of lies and slander.
Fear and anger can make anyone act wrong.
24. It turns out that the abolition of the corporate profit can be compensated... with the decrease in wages !!!
Large companies face their monetary losses with losses of human talent.
25. The seizure of power must be the work of the insurrection; its political goal will be seen after we have seized power.
The insurrections seek to overthrow the current power.
26. The revolution begins at home.
Like education, the importance of standing up for the right must also be taught.
27. Capital becomes an obstacle to the mode of production that has prospered with it and under its protection.
Capitalists only seek to grow things that offer benefits of their own.
28. While the bourgeoisie disunites and disperses the peasants and all the petty-bourgeois layers, it unites, unites and organizes the proletariat.
Reference to the consequences of the bourgeoisie.
29. The State is the product and the manifestation of the irreconcilable character of class contradictions.
The birth of the State.
30. Imperialism emerged as a direct development and continuation of the fundamental properties of capitalism.
The birth of imperialism at the hands of capitalism.
31. The most cunning guardians of the present order of things cannot prevent the awakening of the thought of the proletariat.
No one can control or stifle mass ideas.
32. Communism is all power to the Soviets plus the electrification of the entire country.
The power of communism.
33. Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
Lenin considered religion as another form of imposition and social repression.
34. To demand that this government conclude a democratic peace is to preach virtue to the exploiter of a brothel.
There are governments that must be eradicated in the bud.
35. Marx conceives of social movement as a natural process governed by laws that are not only independent of the will, the conscience and the intention of men, but also determine their will, their conscience and their intentions.
The social movement always arises, depending on the will of the people.
36. But if they at least looked at the economy of our countryside, they would have to recognize that precisely the dissociation of the peasants into the bourgeoisie and the proletariat creates the internal market.
For Lenin it was important that the peasants be given due recognition.
37. They do not want to understand that the union of all the revolutionary elements is achieved much better by organizing independent of individuals who have different interests and the joint action of both parties in certain cases.
Organization and teamwork is what makes successful revolutions.
38. Marxism is almighty because it is true.
How effective is Marxism?
39. Who ignores that, when examining any social phenomenon in the process of its development, vestiges of the past, bases of the present and seeds of the future will always be found in it?
Any cultural movement has its foundations in the past and a promise for the future.
40. Democracy is a form of government in which every four years the tyrant is changed.
Also in democracy there are flaws.
41. That is Trotsky! Always true to himself; scrambles, scam, poses on the left and helps on the right.
Reference to his admiration for Trotsky.
42. Our champions of the petty bourgeoisie precisely want the peasant's subjection to the land to be preserved, but they reject the regime of serfdom, the only one that guaranteed this subjection and was banished only by the mercantile economy and by the capitalism that made it impossible.
The bourgeoisie will always look for a way to keep everyone working while they enjoy the best benefits.
43. The small scattered and isolated exploitation ties workers to the place where they reside, dissociates them, does not allow them to become aware of their class solidarity, does not allow them to unite after having understood that the cause of their oppression is not this or the other person, but the whole system economic.
The exploitation of workers not only prevents them from being promoted in their work, but also from acquiring benefits for the other areas of their life.
44. Men have always been, in politics, foolish victims of the deceit of others and their own, and they will continue to be so as long as they do not learn to discover behind all the phrases, statements and moral, religious, political and social promises, the interests of one or the other class.
The only way to get rid of a corrupt government is to see through its deception.
45. Indeed, the institution of inheritance already presupposes private property, and this arises only with the appearance of exchange.
Inheritances ensure the well-being of their future owners.
46. The permanent army and the police are the fundamental instruments of the force of the State Power.
To really make a change, you must not only change the government, but its military forces.
47. The idea of determinism, which establishes the necessity of man's actions and rejects the absurd legend of the free agency, does not in any way nullify the intelligence or conscience of man, nor does the valuation of his Actions.
No supernatural force can rule over human actions and will.
48. The organization is fine, but the control is better.
Control is everything to success.
49. Criticism has to limit itself to comparing and contrasting a fact not with the idea, but with another fact.
How criticism should work. Contribute rather than harm.
50. For Marx there is no doubt about the subordination of the national question to the workers question.
Strongly maintaining Marxist thought.
51. The truth is always revolutionary.
The truth is the most powerful and accurate weapon for change.
52. The best way to corrupt the capitalist system is to corrupt the currency.
Without money to leverage, capitalism cannot continue to function.
53. Monopolies and similar institutions can and should, of course, be challenged, since they undoubtedly worsen the situation of the worker.
Anyone who is part of the problem must be eliminated.
54. The anarchists' conception of the world is the bourgeois conception turned upside down.
Anarchism as the opposite pole of the bourgeoisie.
55. This is the mercantile economy, which necessarily originates competition between commodity producers, inequality, the ruin of some and the enrichment of others.
To keep an overproduction afloat, it is necessary to create competition among producers.
56. It is true that freedom is something precious, so precious that it must be rationed.
Lenin believed that freedom could easily turn into debauchery.
57. And there are people who spend their lives repeating only these conditionals yes!
Referring to people who prefer to stay in the same conditions even if they are harmful.
58. The bourgeoisie of the oppressed nations constantly turns the slogans of national liberation into a deception for the workers.
Sometimes an offered solution is just another way to reinforce the problem.
59. The revolution is war, the only truly legitimate, just and great one, among all those history has known.
His strong opinion of the revolution.
60. An era of counterrevolution has opened, and it will last about twenty years, unless Tsarism is, in that interval, shattered by a major war.
In relation to his battle against Tsarism.
61. That among Marxists there is no complete unanimity, it is true... this fact does not show the weakness, but precisely the strength and vitality of the Russian Social Democracy.
Differences make movements stronger and more united.
62. Everyone wants freedom, but few knows for what.
Not everyone knows how to appreciate the freedom they have.
63. Decide once every few years which members of the ruling class are to oppress and crush the people in parliament: here is the true essence of bourgeois parliamentarism, not only in parliamentary constitutional monarchies but in the most democratic.
The bourgeois power focuses on placing in front who can get more benefit than the previous figure.
64. The proletariat must claim the freedom of political separation for the colonies and nations oppressed by "their" nation.
The nation that the proletariat seeks is a utopia for its own benefits.
65. Both private property and inheritance are categories of social systems in which they have formed few isolated families (monogamous) and the exchange.
For Lenin, private property and inheritances have more negative than positive consequences for the people.
66. The intelligentsia run the companies of the manufacturers and can run the popular industry.
The intelligentsia is a weapon that can be exploited in many ways.
67. The shortcomings that so often afflict socialist groups: dogmatism and sectarianism.
Fallas against which the socialists fight.
68. The work outside their farm makes them neglect it, which definitely leads to ruin.
A job falls into ruin when something else is pursued that cannot be fully controlled.
69. If they don't shoot us now, they are idiots!
Speaking of the missed opportunity for the people, with his death.
70. Without annihilating the economic organization based on exchange, it is impossible to put an end to international collisions.
International monetary exchanges impede the nation's own growth.
71. One capitalist devours many others.
A catastrophic vision of capitalism.
72. A sociological theory must give an exact idea of the actual process, and nothing more.
It is not necessary to embellish a concept with exaggerated facts for it to be carried out successfully.
73. Situations may arise in which the interests of humanity have to give priority to the class interests of the proletariat.
For Lenin, the bourgeoisie always find a way to disregard the interests of the people.
74. The government hesitates. We must finish him off, whatever the cost! Delaying action would be tantamount to death.
Sometimes it is necessary to act aggressively to overthrow a tyrant.
75. Now, since "Capital" appeared, the materialist conception of history has ceased to be a hypothesis to become a thesis demonstrated with scientific arguments.
Materialism has grown in importance over the years.
76. When the organization fails, ideology is often blamed.
A great phrase that shows us where we should focus our accusations.
77. A small but useful work - Mr. Krivenko reasons deeply - is much better than a great leisure.
Small actions added together can make a big change.
78. The history of society - this catechism of platitudes reads - consists in the fact that at the beginning there was the family, this cell of every society; then the family grew to a tribe, and this, to form a state.
The emergence of the State according to the evolution of history.
79. Don't paint nationalism red.
Red has always been associated with the communist movement.
80. One cannot reason about the soul without explaining in particular the psychic processes: here progress must consist precisely in abandoning general theories and philosophical systems about what is the soul.
Our soul resides in our own mental faculties.
