Vladimir Lenin

Socialism

Born: April 22, 1870
Died: January 21, 1924
Occupation: Revolutionary, never worked a real job

1. The goal of socialism is communism.
2. The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
3. It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.
4. People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.
5. Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
6. Trust is good, but control is better.
7. The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
8. Germany will militarize herself out of existence, England will expand herself out of existence, and America will spend herself out of existence.
9. Why should freedom of speech and freedom of press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to be right allow itself to be criticized? It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns. Why should any man be allowed to buy a printing press and disseminate pernicious opinions calculated to embarrass the government?
10. The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.
11. Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by the use of violence by the proletariat against the bourgeoisie, rule that is unrestricted by any laws.
12. We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.
13. As an ultimate objective, “peace” simply means communist world control.
14. There can be nothing more abominable than religion.
15. Three keys to success: read, read, read.
16. One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
17. How can you make a revolution without executions?
18. You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
19. We are not shooting enough professors.
20. Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
21. Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.
22. One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and forceful interest in politics.
23. It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
24. The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.
25. The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive.
26. No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.
27. The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
28. Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
29. Fascism is capitalism in decay.
30. “He who does not work shall not eat.”
31. “One man with a gun can control 100 without one.”

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