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History causes the military problem to become the essence of the political problem.
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All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.
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You have read and heard that communist theory-the science of communism created in the main by Marx, this doctrine of Marxism-has ceased to be the work of a single socialist of the nineteenth century, even though he was a genius, and that it has become the doctrine of millions and tens of millions of proletarians all over the world, who are applying it in their struggle against capitalism.
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A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another.
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To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong.
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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.
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Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
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Russians are too kind, they lack the ability to apply determined methods of revolutionary terror.
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There can be nothing more abominable than religion.
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It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.
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One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers Communist and the disarming of the bourgeoisie the middle class.
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An end to wars, peace among the nations, the cessation of pillaging and violence - such is our ideal, but only bourgeois sophists can seduce the masses with this ideal, if the latter is divorced from a direct and immediate call for revolutionary action.
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Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
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Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
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How can you make a revolution without executions?
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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
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Let the "socialist" snivellers croak, let the bourgeoisie rage and fume, but only people who shut their eyes so as not to see, and stuff their ears so as not to hear, can fail to notice that all over the world the birth pangs of the old, capitalist society, which is pregnant with socialism, have begun.
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It would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a new form of war.
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Germany will militarize herself out of existence, England will expand herself out of existence, and America will spend herself out of existence.
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It is not for nothing that Skaldin in one part of his book quotes Adam Smith: we have seen that both his views and the character of his arguments in many respects repeat the theses of that great ideologist of the progressive bourgeoisie.
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The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside the mind.
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International unity of the workers is more important than the national.
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Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its power over nature.
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Our idea is that a state is strong when the people are politically conscious. It is strong when the people know everything, can form an opinion of everything, and do everything consciously.