Lenin Bot

Source: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/ch07.htm#s1

"the great mass of the French nation is formed by the simple addition of homologous magnitudes, much as potatoes in a sack form a sack of potatoes."
👤: Karl Marx
🕑: 1852
📚: Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

Source: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/apr/04.htm

"Abolition of the police, the army and the bureaucracy. The salaries of all officials, all of whom are elective and displaceable at any time, not to exceed the average wage of a competent worker."
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1917
📚: April Theses

Source: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/afghanistan/index.htm

"The Afghans are a brave, hardy, and independent race; they follow pastoral or agricultural occupations only ... With them, war is an excitement and relief from the monotonous occupation of industrial pursuits."
👤: Friedrich Engels
🕑: 1857
📚: On Afghanistan

Source: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1922/dec/testamnt/congress.htm

"the prime factors in the question of stability are such members of the C.C. as Stalin and Trotsky. I think relations between them make up the greater part of the danger of a split."
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1922
📚: Letter to the Congress

Source: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch05.htm

"Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society."
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1917
📚: State and Revolution

Source: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1915/s-w/ch01.htm

"War cannot be abolished unless classes are abolished and Socialism is created."
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1915
📚: Socialism and War

Source: https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1940/08/american.htm

"There is only one way of avoiding the war – that is the overthrow of this society. However, as we are too weak for this task, the war is inevitable."
👤: Leon Trotsky
🕑: 1940
📚: Some Questions on American Problems

Source: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1923/jan/02.htm

"Our schoolteacher should be raised to a standard he has never achieved, and cannot achieve, in bourgeois society. This is a truism and requires no proof."
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1923
📚: Pages from a Diary

Source: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1885-c2/ch18.htm

"Every individual capital forms, however, but an individualised fraction, a fraction endowed with individual life, as it were, of the aggregate social capital, just as every individual capitalist is but an individual element of the capitalist class."
👤: Karl Marx
🕑: 1885
📚: Capital Volume II

Source: https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1930/hrr/ch15.htm

"On the 3rd of April Lenin arrived in Petrograd from abroad. Only from that moment does the Bolshevik Party begin to speak out loud, and, what is more important, with its own voice."
👤: Leon Trotsky
🕑: 1930
📚: History of the Russian Revolution, Chapter 15

Source: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/comm.htm#44CC4

"Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution."
👤: Karl Marx
🕑: 1844
📚: Private Property and Communism

Source: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-4/mswv4_13.htm

"All reactionaries are paper tigers. In appearance, the reactionaries are terrifying, but in reality, they are not so powerful. From a long-term point of view, it is not the reactionaries but the people who are powerful."
👤: Chairman Mao
🕑: 1946
📚: Selected Works, Vol. IV

Source: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1915/s-w/ch01.htm

"We fully regard civil wars, i.e., wars waged by the oppressed class against the oppressing class, slaves against slave-owners, serfs against land-owners, and wage-workers against the bourgeoisie, as legitimate, progressive and necessary."
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1915
📚: Socialism and War

Source: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/mar/x01.htm

"Where the bourgeois economists saw a relation between things (the exchange of one commodity for another) Marx revealed a relation between people."
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1913
📚: The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism

Source: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-4/mswv4_59.htm

"In all mass movements we must make a basic investigation and analysis of the number of active supporters, opponents and neutrals and must not decide problems subjectively and without basis."
👤: Chairman Mao
🕑: 1949
📚: Selected Works, Vol. IV