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101 " It is not surprising that the author is driven to the conclusion that “the French Republic is a financial monarchy”; “it is the complete domination of the financial oligarchy; the latter dominates over the press and the government.”[9] "
― Vladimir Lenin , Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
102 " American ethics”, which the European professors and well-meaning bourgeois so hypocritically deplore, have, in the age of finance capital, become the ethics of literally every large city in any country. "
103 " Owing to the conditions of capitalist exploitation, the modern wage slaves are so crushed by want and poverty that "they cannot be bothered with democracy", "cannot be bothered with politics"; in the ordinary, peaceful course of events, the majority of the population is debarred from participation in public and political life. "
― Vladimir Lenin
104 " I had already drawn up the plan for the next, the seventh chapter, on the 'Experience of the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917.' But... It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it. "
105 " As long as capitalism remains what it is, surplus capital will never be utilised for the purpose of raising the standard of living of the masses in a given country, for this would mean a decline in profits for the capitalists; it will be used for the purpose of increasing those profits by exporting capital abroad to the backward countries. "
106 " The exploiting classes need political rule to maintain exploitation, i.e., in the selfish interests of an insignificant minority against the vast majority of all people. The exploited classes need political rule in order to completely abolish all exploitation, i.e., in the interests of the vast majority of the people, and against the insignificant minority consisting of the modern slave-owners – the landowners and capitalists. "
― Vladimir Lenin , The State and Revolution
107 " Matter is a philosophicalcategory denoting the objective reality which is given to man by his sensations, and which is copied, photographed and reflected by our sensations, while existing independently of them. "
― Vladimir Lenin , Materialism and Empirio-Criticism: Critical Comments on A Reactionary Philosophy
108 " Federal Switzerlandization would be a huge step backwards for Germany. Two "
109 " Capitalism has grown into a world system of colonial oppression and of the financial strangulation of the overwhelming majority of the population of the world by a handful of “advanced” countries. And this “booty” is shared between two or "
110 " The state is a product and a manifestation of the irreconcilability of class antagonisms. "
111 " I can’t listen to music because it makes me want to say sweet, silly things, and pat people on the head… but you have to beat people’s heads, beat them mercilessly! … What a devilishly difficult job I have. "
112 " Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich: this is the democratism of capitalist society. "
113 " Under capitalism democratism is restricted, cramped, curtailed, mutilated by all the conditions of wage slavery and of the poverty and misery of the masses "
114 " Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital. "
― Vladimir Lenin , The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism. Karl Marx. Frederick Engels
115 " Imperialism is the eve of the social revolution of the proletariat. This has been confirmed since 1917 on a world-wide scale. N. Lenin July 6, 1920 "
116 " The reason such elementary things have to be explained to the Russian "democrats" is that they are so immersed right up to their ears in the mud of petty-bourgeois ideas that to imagine any but a petty-bourgeois order of things is quite beyond them. "
― Vladimir Lenin ,
117 " It is important for us to draw literally all working people into the government of the state. It is a task of tremendous difficulty. But socialism cannot be implemented by a minority, by the Party. It can be implemented by tens of millions when they have learned to do it for themselves. "
118 " In the history of modern socialism this is a phenomenon, that the strife of the various trends within the socialist movement has from national become international. "
119 " After the experience both of Europe and Asia, anyone who speaks of non - class politics and of non - class socialism deserves to be simply put in a cage and exhibited alongside of the Australian kangaroo. "
― Vladimir Lenin , On Marx and Engels
120 " The more democratic the system of government is, the clearer it will be to the workers that the root of the evil is not the lack of rights, but capitalism. "