Frases de Vladimír Iljič Lenin

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“É preciso sonhar, mas com a condição de crer em nosso sonho, de observar com atenção a vida real, de confrontar a observação com nosso sonho, de realizar escrupulosamente nossas fantasias. Sonhos, acredite neles.”

“Um imbecil pode, por si só, levantar dez vezes mais problemas que dez sábios juntos não conseguiriam resolver.”

“Enquanto o capitalismo e o socialismo existirem, não poderemos viver em paz. No fim, um ou outro terá de triunfar – um réquiem será cantado sobre a República Soviética ou sobre o mundo capitalista.”

“A paz: uma trégua para a guerra.”

“A morte de uma organização acontece quando os de baixo já não querem e os de cima já não podem.”

“Há décadas em que nada acontece e há semanas em que décadas acontecem.”

“Por isso, seria um grande erro aprender-se comunismo apenas nos livros. Os nossos discursos e artigos actuais não são mera repetição daquilo que se diziam antes do comunismo, porque os nossos discursos e artigos estão ligados com o nosso trabalho diário em todos os domínios. Sem trabalho, sem luta, o conhecimento livresco do comunismo, adquirido em folhetos e obras comunistas, não tem absolutamente nenhum valor, porque não faria mais do que manter o velho abismo entre a teoria e a prática, o velho abismo que era o aspecto mais nocivo da antiga sociedade burguesa.”

“Sem teoria revolucionária, não há prática revolucionária.”

“Os fatos são teimosos.”

“A liberdade é uma coisa tão preciosa que devia ser racionada.”

“O partido é a mente, a honra e a consciência da nossa época.”

“Um homem com uma arma pode controlar 100 sem uma”

“Que desperdício perdermos Mussolini. Ele é um homem de primeira classe que levaria nosso partido ao poder na Itália. [Discurso a uma delegação de socialistas italianos em Moscou após a marcha de Mussolini em Roma em 1922]”

“Em todo o mundo, onde quer que hajam capitalistas, liberdade de imprensa significa liberdade de comprar jornais, de escritores, de subornar, de comprar e fingir "opinião pública" para o benefício da burguesia.”

“Os capitalistas são tão capazes de auto sacrifício como de se auto erguerem pelos seus próprios atacadores.”

“Quando um liberal é abusado, ele diz: "Graças a Deus eles não me bateram".
Quando ele é espancado, ele agradece a Deus que eles não o mataram.
Quando ele for morto, ele agradecerá a Deus que sua alma imortal foi libertada de seu barro mortal.”

“… prepare eveything to burn Baku to the ground, if there is an attack…”

“Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.”

“It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.”

“The proletariat needs state power, a centralized organisation of force, an organisation of violence, both to crush the resistance of the exploiters and to lead the enormous mass of the population - the peasants, the petty bourgeoisie, and semi-proletarians - in the work of organising a socialist economy.”

“No Bolshevik, no Communist, no intelligent socialist has ever entertained the idea of violence against the middle peasants. All socialists have always spoken of agreement with them and of their gradual and voluntary transition to socialism.”

“About three million must be regarded as middle peasants, while barely two million consist of kulaks, rich peasants, grain profiteers… Ruthless war on the kulaks! Death to them! … [Class struggle entails] ruthless suppression of the kulaks, those bloodsuckers, vampires, plunderers of the people and profiteers, who batten on famine.”

“The only platform from which public exposures can be made is an all-Russian newspaper. "Without a political organ, a political movement deserving that name is inconceivable in modern Europe."In this connection Russia must undoubtedly by included in modern Europe. The press has long ago become a power in our country, otherwise the government would not spend tens of thousands of rubles to bribe it, and to subsidize the Katkovs and Meshcherskys. And it is no novelty in autocratic Russia for the underground press to break through the wall of sponsorship and compel the legal and conservative press to speak openly of it.”

“Under the old type of capitalism, when free competition prevailed, the export of goods was the most typical feature. Under modern capitalism, when monopolies prevail, the exporter of capital has become the typical feature.”

“Does not the whole history of socialism, particularly of French socialism, which is so rich in revolutionary striving, show us that when the working people themselves take power in their hands the ruling classes resort to unheard-of crimes and shootings if it is a matter of protecting their money-bags.”

“The Social-Democrat's ideal should not be a trade union secretary. but a tribune of the people, able to react to every manifestation of tyranny and oppression, no matter where it takes place, no matter what stratum or class of the people it affects; he must be able to group all these manifestations into a single picture of police violence and capitalist exploitation; he must be able to take advantage of every petty event in order to explain his socialistic convictions and his Social-Democratic demands to all, in order to explain to all and every the world-historic significance of the struggle for the emancipation of the proletariat.”

“Hundreds of thousands of rouble notes are being issued daily by our treasury. This is done, not in order to fill the coffers of the State with practically worthless paper, but with the deliberate intention of destroying the value of money as a means of payment… Experience has taught us it is impossible to root out the evils of capitalism merely by confiscation and expropriation… The simplest way to exterminate the very spirit of capitalism is therefore to flood the country with notes of a high face-value without financial guarantees of any sort. …[T]he great illusion of the value and power of money, on which the capitalist state is based will have been definitely destroyed.”

“Democracy for the cast majority of the people, and suppression by force, i. e., exclusion from democracy, of the exploiters and oppressors of the people - this is the change democracy undergoes during the transition from capitalism to Communism.”

“It is necessary — secretly and urgently to prepare the terror. And on Tuesday we will decide whether it will be through SNK or otherwise.”

“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.”

“The exploiting classes need political rule in order to maintain exploitation, i. e., in the selfish interests of an insignificant minority and against the interests of the vast majority of the people. The exploited classes need political rule in order completely to abolish all exploitation, i. e., in the interests of the vast majority of the people, and against the interests of the insignificant minority consisting of the modern slave-owners - the landlords and the capitalists.”

“When we say "the state," the state is We, it is we, it is the proletariat, it is the advanced guard of the working class.”

“The big banks are the "state apparatus" which we need to bring about socialism, and which we take ready-made from capitalism' our task here is merely to lop off what capitalistically mutilates this excellent apparatus, to make it even bigger, even more democratic, even more comprehensive. Quantity will be transformed into quality. A single State Bank, the biggest of the big, with branches in every rural district, in every factory, will constitute as much as nine-tenths of the socialist apparatus.”

“A newspaper is not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, it is also a collective organiser.”

“Treat the Jews (express it politely: Jewish petty bourgeoisie) and urban inhabitants in the Ukraine with an iron rod, transferring them to the front, not letting them into the government agencies (except in an insignificant percentage, in particularly exceptional circumstances, under class control).”

“The proletariat needs state power, the centralized organization of force, the organization of violence, for the purpose of crushing the resistance of the exploiters and for the purpose of leading the great mass of the population - the peasantry, the petty bourgeoisie, the semi-proletarians - in the work of organizing a socialist economy.”

“Not a single problem of the class struggle has ever been solved in history except by violence… The class struggle did not accidentally assume its latest form, the form in which the exploited class takes all the means of power in its own hands in order to completely destroy its class enemy, the bourgeoisie…”

“When we are reproached with having established a dictatorship of one party… we say, ‘Yes, it is a dictatorship of one party! This is what we stand for and we shall not shift from that position…”

“Sensation is a subjective image of the objective world.”

“The Congress decisively rejects terrorism, i. e., the system of individual political assassinations, as being a method of political struggle which is most inexpedient at the present time, diverting the best forces from the urgent and imperatively necessary work of organisation and agitation, destroying contact between the revolutionaries and the masses of the revolutionary classes of the population, and spreading both among the revolutionaries themselves and the population in general utterly distorted ideas of the aims and methods of struggle against the autocracy.”

“We must '"go among all classes of the people" as theoreticians, as propagandists, as agitators and as organizers.”

“The nearer we come to the full military suppression of the bourgeoisie, the more dangerous becomes to us the high flood of petty-bourgeois Anarchism. And the struggle against these elements cannot be waged with propaganda and agitation alone. … The struggle must also be waged by applying force and compulsion.”

“The passing of state power from one class to another is the first, the principal, the basic sign of a revolution, both in the strictly scientific and in the practical political meaning of that term.”

“Disarmament is the ideal of socialism. There will be no wars in and the dictatorship of the proletariat is not a socialist. Dictatorship is state power based directly on violence. And in the twentieth century — as in the age of civilisation generally — violence means neither a fist nor a club, but troops. To put “disarmament” in the programme is tantamount to making the general declaration: We are opposed to the use of arms. There is as little Marxism in this as there would be if we were to say: We are opposed to violence!”

“Down with all colonial policy, down with the whole policy of intervention and capitalist struggle for the conquest of foreign lands and foreign populations, for new privileges, new markets, control of the Straits, etc.!”