Lenin Quotes

Source: Speech At A Meeting At The Former Michelson Works. Delivered on August 30, 1918 (N.S.). Lenin’s Collected Works, Progress Publishers, Moscow, Volume 28, 1965, pages 51-52 Link: marxists.org/archive/lenin/…

"We have only one maxim, one slogan: All who work have the right to enjoy the benefits of life. Idlers and parasites who suck the blood of the working people must be deprived of these benefits. And we proclaim: Everything for the workers, everything for the working people!"

Source: Fourth Anniversary of the October Revolution. Written on October 14, 1921. Lenin’s Collected Works, 2nd English Edition, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1965, Volume 33, pages 51-59 Link: marxists.org/archive/lenin/…

We do not forget for a moment that we have committed and are committing numerous mistakes and are suffering numerous reverses. How can reverses and mistakes be avoided in a matter so new in the history of the world as the building of an unprecedented type of state edifice!"

"Let the curs and swine of the moribund bourgeoisie and of the petty-bourgeois democrats who trail behind them heap imprecations, abuse and derision upon our heads for our reverses and mistakes in the work of building up our Soviet system.

Source: Report on the Unity Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. Published in June 1906. Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1965, Moscow, Volume 10, pages 317-382 Link: marxists.org/archive/lenin/…

"We must work hard to build up an organisation that will include all the class-conscious Social-Democratic workers, and will live its own independent political life. The autonomy of every Party organisation, which hitherto has been largely a dead letter, must become a reality."

Source: Materialism and Empirio-criticism. Published May 1909 (O.S.). Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1972, Moscow, Volume 14, pages 17-362 Link: marxists.org/archive/lenin/…

Twitter: "Marx’s theory is an objective truth [so] by following the path of Marxian theory we shall draw closer and closer to objective truth (without ever exhausting it); but by following any other path we shall arrive at nothing but confusion and lies."

Source: What Are Our Ministers Thinking About. Written at the end of 1895. Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1972, Moscow, Volume 2, pages 87-92 Link: marxists.org/archive/lenin/…

"Workers! You see how mortally terrified are our ministers at the working people acquiring knowledge! Show everybody, then, that no power will succeed in depriving the workers of class-consciousness!"

Source: On the Significance of Militant Materialism. Lenin’s Collected Works, Written March 12, 1922. Progress Publishers, Moscow, Volume 33, 1972, pp. 227-236 Link: marxists.org/archive/lenin/…

"Without an alliance with non-Communists in the most diverse spheres of activity there can be no question of any successful communist construction."

Source: Summary of Dialectics. Written in 1914. Lenin’s Collected Works, 2nd English Edition, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1965, Volume 38, pages 220-222 Link: marxists.org/archive/lenin/…

"In brief, dialectics can be defined as the doctrine of the unity of opposites. This embodies the essence of dialectics, but it requires explanations and development."

Source: The Beginning of the Revolution in Russia. Published on January 18, 1905 (O.S.). Lenin Collected Works, Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1962, Moscow, Volume 8, pages 97-100 Link: marxists.org/archive/lenin/…

"Let, therefore, every Social-Democrat, every class-conscious worker bear in mind the immense tasks of the broad popular struggle that now rest upon his shoulders."

Source: “Who Stands to Gain?” Published April 11, 1913 (O.S.). Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1977, Moscow, Volume 19, pages 53-54 Link: marxists.org/archive/lenin/…

"There is a Latin tag cui prodest? meaning 'who stands to gain?' When it is not immediately apparent which political or social groups, forces or alignments advocate certain proposals, measures, etc., one should always ask: 'Who stands to gain?'"

Source: What Has Been Revealed By the Trial of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Duma Group. Published March 29, 1915 (O.S.). Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, [197[4]], Moscow, Volume 21, pages 171-177 Link: marxists.org/archive/lenin/…

"The guns should be directed, not against our brothers, the wage slaves of other countries, but against the reactionary and bourgeois governments and parties of all countries"—these words will spread"