"It is particularly necessary to arouse in all who participate in practical work, or are preparing to take up that work, discontent with the amateurism prevailing among us and an unshakable determination to rid ourselves of it." 👤: Vladimir Lenin 🕑: 1901 📚: What Is To Be Done?

"Without preparedness, superiority is not real superiority and there can be no initiative either. Having grasped this point, a force that is inferior but prepared can often defeat a superior enemy by surprise attack." 👤: Chairman Mao 🕑: 1938 📚: Selected Works, Vol. II

"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it." 👤: Karl Marx 🕑: 1845 📚: Theses On Feuerbach: Thesis 11

"A newspaper is not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, it is also a collective organiser." 👤: Vladimir Lenin 🕑: 1901 📚: What Is To Be Done?

"The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge." 👤: Karl Marx 🕑: 1843 📚: Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right

"Without a People's army, the people have nothing." 👤: Chairman Mao 🕑: 1945 📚: Selected Works, Vol. III

"Without a People's army, the people have nothing." 👤: Chairman Mao 🕑: 1945 📚: Selected Works, Vol. III

"Give full play to our style of fighting - courage in battle, no fear of sacrifice, no fear of fatigue, and continuous fighting (that is, fighting successive battles in a short time without rest)." 👤: Chairman Mao 🕑: 1947 📚: Selected Works, Vol. IV

"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

"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." 👤: Vladimir Lenin 🕑: 1916 📚: Letter to Inessa Armand

"The commanders and fighters of the entire Chinese People's Liberation Army absolutely must not relax in the least their will to fight; any thinking that relaxes the will to fight and belittles the enemy is wrong." 👤: Chairman Mao 🕑: 1949 📚: Selected Works, Vol. IV

"The Bolshevik slogans and ideas on the whole have been confirmed by history; but concretely things have worked out differently; they are more original, more peculiar, more variated than anyone could have expected.." 👤: Vladimir Lenin 🕑: 1918 📚: Letters on Tactics

"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

"Mechanical centralism is necessarily complemented by factionalism, which is at once a malicious caricature of democracy and a potential political danger." 👤: Leon Trotsky 🕑: 1923 📚: Letter to Party Meetings

"Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science." 👤: Karl Marx 🕑: 1844 📚: Private Property and Communism

"We should rid our ranks of all impotent thinking. All views that overestimate the strength of the enemy and underestimate the strength of the people are wrong." 👤: Chairman Mao 🕑: 1947 📚: Selected Works, Vol. IV

"So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state." 👤: Vladimir Lenin 🕑: 1917 📚: The State and Revolution

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"Take the ideas of the masses and concentrate them, then go to the masses, persevere in the ideas and carry them through, so as to form correct ideas of leadership - such is the basic method of leadership." 👤: Chairman Mao 🕑: 1943 📚: Selected Works, Vol. III

"Thousands upon thousands of martyrs have heroically laid down their lives for the people; let us hold their banner high and march ahead along the path crimson with their blood!" 👤: Chairman Mao 🕑: 1945 📚: Selected Works, Vol. III

"The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave." 👤: Leon Trotsky 🕑: 1932 📚: What Next for the German Revolution?

"Nothing is more dangerous in politics, especially in a critical period, than to repeat general formulas without examining their social content." 👤: Leon Trotsky 🕑: 1934 📚: Whither France?

"I am in general trying to read Hegel materialistically: Hegel is materialism which has been stood on its head (according to Engels) – that is to say, I cast aside for the most part God, the Absolute, the Pure Idea, etc." 👤: Vladimir Lenin 🕑: 1914 📚: Conspectus of Hegel’s Logic

"Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital." 👤: Vladimir Lenin 🕑: 1913 📚: The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism

"A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the average political level of the masses." 👤: Vladimir Lenin 🕑: 1917 📚: Speech On The Agrarian Question November 14

"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament." 👤: Vladimir Lenin 🕑: 1917 📚: State and Revolution

"Socialists cannot achieve their great aim without fighting against all oppression of nations." 👤: Vladimir Lenin 🕑: 1915 📚: Socialism and War

"The British monarchy, hypocritical British conservatism, religiosity, servility, sanctimoniousness all this is old rags, rubbish, the refuse of centuries which we have no need for whatsoever." 👤: Leon Trotsky 🕑: 1921 📚: Through What Stage Are We Passing?

"Modern society, which, soon after its birth, pulled Plutus by the hair of his head from the bowels of the earth, greets gold as its Holy Grail, as the glittering incarnation of the very principle of its own life." 👤: Karl Marx 🕑: 1867 📚: Capital, Volume I, Chapter 3

"We must display determination, endurance, firmness and unanimity. We must stop at nothing. Everybody and everything must be used to save the rule of the workers and peasants, to save communism." 👤: Vladimir Lenin 🕑: 1920 📚: Speech to Third All-Russia Congress of Textile Workers

"Labour is ... not the only source of material wealth, ie of the use-values it produces. As William Petty says, labour is the father of material wealth, the earth is its mother." 👤: Karl Marx 🕑: 1867 📚: Capital, Volume I, Chapter One

"In bourgeois society, therefore, the past dominates the present; in Communist society, the present dominates the past. In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality." 👤: Marx & Engels 🕑: 1848 📚: Communist Manifesto

"The stubborn, doltish, and insensate rejection by the Communist Party of the policies of the united front provides the Social Democracy, under the present conditions, with its most important political weapon." 👤: Leon Trotsky 🕑: 1932 📚: Bureaucratic Ultimatism

"The Bolsheviks could not have retained power for two and a half months, let alone two and a half years, without the most rigorous and truly iron discipline in our Party." 👤: Vladimir Lenin 🕑: 1920 📚: Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder

"A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of communism." 👤: Marx & Engels 🕑: 1848 📚: Communist Manifesto

"Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people." 👤: Leon Trotsky 🕑: 1923 📚: The Struggle for Cultured Speech