Vladimir Lenin Quotes

It is the historical mission of the Communist International to be the gravedigger of bourgeois society.

This is the absolute truth: and on this truth our tactics must be based. All tactics that are not based on this are false, and lead the proletariat to terrible defeat.

Many workers already realize that the rule of the Socialist or Communist party will be only the concealed form of the rule of the bourgeois class in which the exploitation and suppression of the working class remains.

Our party is a party of the proletarian revolution and the dictatorship of the proletariat. The proletarian revolution is the only solution of the labour problem and all our work must lead to this goal.

Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.

Harmony? No! Class war! Hatred to the death for the criminal bourgeoisie!

A bourgeois-and-workers' revolution is a betrayal of the working class

The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation.

As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.

The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.

Overthrow the capitalist class.

Marxist revolutions generally happened in countries that otherwise could not have carried out an industrial revolution.

The Communist is a Socialist in a violent hurry.

The identification of the intellectuals with the revolutionary movement is dependent … on their complete rift with bourgeois ideology and liberalism …. The relationship of the intellectuals as a group with the working class is essentially an alliance. But the alliance can be established only on the … unadulterated principles of Marxism-Leninism.

The socialist proletariat rejects any responsibility for the events being brought about by a blinded, a maddened ruling class …. All responsibility falls to the wielders of power today! It is "to be or not to be!" World-history is the world-court!

Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it.

The revolution in Russia was terrible for the proletariat in the long years of its development- and it is terrible now.

Who, if not the revolutionary intelligentsia, could promote the political development of the working class?

… if the proletariat is to achieve victory, all the workers, irrespective of nationality, must be united. Clearly, the demolition of national barriers and close unity between the Russian, Georgian, Armenian, Polish, Jewish and other proletarians is a necessary condition for the victory of the proletariat of all Russia.

Peaceful surrender of power by the bourgeoisie is possible, if it is convinced that resistance is hopeless and if it prefers to save its skin. It is much more likely, of course, that even in small states socialism will not be achieved without civil war, and for that reason the only program of international Social-Democracy must be recognition of civil war, though violence is, of course, alien to our ideals.

What the proletariat needs is a bath of blood.

The workers and peasants must, as quickly as possible, seize everything that was created by them over many centuries and use it for their own interests.

The accumulated experience of mankind in the struggle against exploitation, synthesized in Marxism, enabled the Mozambican revolutionary movement to benefit from and absorb that experience.

Leninism is Marxism of the era of imperialism and the proletarian revolution.

Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well.