Vladimir Lenin

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Exchange, fair or unfair,always presupposes and includes the rule of the bourgeoisie.

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the ‘experience of the revolution’ than to write about it.

Capitalists can buy themselves out of any crisis, so long as they make the workers pay

Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.

What a waste that we lost Mussolini. He is a first-rate man who would have led our party to power in Italy.

Mass education was designed to turn independent farmers into docile, passive tools of production. That was its primary purpose. And don’t think people didn’t know it. They knew it and they fought against it. There was a lot of resistance to mass education for exactly that reason.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

If the Democrats could get their act together, overcoming the schism between the donor-oriented New Democrat Party management and the increasingly activist and social democratic base, they would have a decent chance to take over Congress.

This transformation of competition into monopoly is one of the most important-if not the most important-phenomena of modern capitalist economy.

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

I am never guided by a possible assessment of my work.

This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don’t subsidize, we don’t want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact.

In fact when the press discusses [a national healthcare program] they call it “politically impossible.” Meaning the pharmaceutical companies won’t accept it, the insurance companies won’t accept it, and so on.

The Leninist antagonism to the most essential features of socialism was evident from the very start. Lenin and Trotsky, upon assuming power, immediately devoted themselves to destroying the liberatory potential of Soviets and factory committees.

It’s not that India was a peaceful place before — it wasn’t. Nor was the western hemisphere a pacifist utopia. But there’s no doubt that almost everywhere the Europeans went they raised the level of violence to a significant degree.

The U.S. cannot allow EBOLA-infected people back. People that go to far away places to help out are great – but must suffer the consequences!

As far as oligarchs who acquire sports team abroad, and invest money abroad, I wouldn’t treat this phenomenon as something bad.

Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside.

I would not take a decision that kills millions of people, I do not believe the threat of mass murder is a legitimate way to go about dealing with international relations.

We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.