Working Class Revolution Quotes

The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.

I have a great fear of the atrociousness of proletarian rule.

It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution - real girl's talk.

Does not the whole history of socialism, particularly of French socialism, which is so rich in revolutionary striving, show us that when the working people themselves take power in their hands the ruling classes resort to unheard-of crimes and shootings if it is a matter of protecting their money-bags.

In Democracy, man exploits man; in Communism, it's the other way round.

With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in "giving a hiding" to the classes that were previously supreme, before forcing them to recognize the new order and to submit to it.

We thought that the proletariat would eventually run the world. But it is the Americans who have assumed that position... The American people have changed.

The working class must break up, smash the "ready-made state machinery," and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it.

Proletarian dictatorship can become a practical order of the day in America only if President Roosevelt’s promise of a higher standard of living under the present system is defeated or betrayed.

This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world.