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Vladimir Lenin Quotes about Democracy

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Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

Historical, Democracy, Liberty

We Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not "in the name of capitalism," but in the name of clearing the path for our movement, which clearing is impossible without the development of capitalism.

Names, Democracy, Movement

But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism to Communism.

Communication, Mean, Democracy

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.

Class, Organization, Democracy

State and Revolution (1919) ch. 4

Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society.

Democracy, Minorities, Rich

"Collected Works" by Vladimir Lenin, vol. 25, 1993.

Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.

Democracy, Movement, Revolutionary

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (2012). “Essential Works of Lenin: "What Is to Be Done?" and Other Writings”, p.69, Courier Corporation

Don't be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.

Freedom, Democracy, Done

Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact, it screens the non-freedom and inferiority of women, the non-freedom and inferiority of the toilers and exploited.

Promise, Democracy, Phrases

In capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The dictatorship of the proletariat, the period of transition to communism, will for the first time create democracy for the people, for the majority, along with the necessary suppression of the exploiters, of the minority.

People, Democracy, Minorities

"The State and Revolution". Book by Vladimir Lenin, 1917.

False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.

Freedom, Political, Democracy

Face the truth squarely. In politics that is always the best and the only correct attitude.

Attitude, Freedom, Democracy

Democracy is a form of the state, it represents, on the one hand, the organized, systematic use of force against persons; but, on the other hand, it signifies the formal recognition of equality of citizens, the equal right of all to determine the structure of, and to administer, the state.

Hands, Democracy, Citizens

Politics is the most concentrated expression of economics.

Freedom, Expression, Democracy

All extremes are bad. All that is good and useful, if carried to extremes, may become-and beyond a certain limit is bound to become-bad and injurious.

Freedom, Democracy, May

Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd and reactionary both in the economic and the political sense.

Political, Democracy, Want

"Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution". "Collected Works", 9, Marxists, (p. 29), 1905.

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