Russian revolutionary (1870-1924)
Behind the epistemological scholasticism of empirio-criticism one must not fail to see the struggle of parties in philosophy, a struggle which in the last analysis reflects the tendencies and ideology of the antagonistic classes in modern society.
VLADIMIR LENIN
"Conclusion", The Recent Revolution in Natural Science and Philosophical Idealism
Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not at all our task to descend to the level of the "working masses."
VLADIMIR LENIN
"The Primitiveness of the Economists and the Organization of the Revolutionaries", What Is To Be Done?
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 toward Socialism.
VLADIMIR LENIN
speech in Smolny, Petrograd, November 17, 1917
All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.
VLADIMIR LENIN
The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism
Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.
VLADIMIR LENIN
"L. N. Tolstoy and the Modern Labour Movement", Nash Put, November 28, 1910
We stand for an alliance with all countries without exception.
VLADIMIR LENIN
interview with Karl Wiegand, February 18, 1920
In the two months following the revolution the industrialists have robbed the whole of Russia.
VLADIMIR LENIN
"War and Revolution", Collected Works
Where the bourgeois economists saw a relation between things (the exchange of one commodity for another) Marx revealed a relation between people.
VLADIMIR LENIN
The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism