Karl Marx

Marxism is such a bad idea it has to attack and destroy all other ideas and eventually the people who have them in order to look good in their own eyes.
"The words Socialism and Communism have the same general meaning" it is only a matter of degree, and hell at any temperature is still hell. They indicate a condition of society in which the wealth of the community: the land and the means of production, distribution and transport are held in common, production being for use and not for profit." In order to reach their classless society they are willing to murder anyone of all classes with another opinion.
Marxism is not a war on more than one class is intended to reduce everyone to slavery.
Sylvia Pankhurst
So in Communism everyone is used and no one profits.
Vladimir Lenin once said, "Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing." That has never happened except in the early Church.
Under the totalitarianism produced in communist regimes over 120,000,000 people have lost their lives. Your labor is a natural property right. Communism requires someone other than the individual to rule over a portion of the labor of the most productive for the benefit of the less productive. Under Communism the individual has waived the primary right to choose the manner and amount of distribution of the products of his or her labor to the collective and its enforcers. Under Capitalism charity remains a choice of the individual.
Love is not merely an emotion. Love like electricity or light is an utility. It must move through society as a daily practice in order to remain viable.
The practice of true Love by nature requires both choice and sacrifice.
This would mean that the increase of a dependance upon "legal charity" within a nation will degenerate the masses and cause a decrease in love with a corresponding increase in the manifestation of hate until tyrants rule the land and the people are reduced to perfect savages.

Marxism

Marxism is a social, political, and economic philosophy named after Karl Marx. It examines the effect of capitalism on labor, productivity, and economic development and argues for a worker revolution to overturn capitalism in favor of communism.

It is supposed to be a political and economic theory where a society has no classes. No communist system has ever had no class but has always involved oppression of one group by another.

Marxists consider the material world as an integrated whole in which all things and phenomena are interconnected and interdependent. Whereas, socialists believe in equality and abolition of private enterprise. Both require the collective to oppress the individual and when assimilation is inconvenient oppression becomes necessary even if death is the result.

The claim is that the main goal of Marxism is to achieve a classless society throughout the world. But this would mean that there are many Capitalist ideologies which would have to be eliminated before this could ever happen making all capitalist a class unto itself.

Karl Marx

Karl Heinrich Marx was born 5 May 1818 and died 14 March 1883. He was a German philosopher, critic of political economy, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto and the three-volume Das Kapital (1867–1883). Marx's political and philosophical thought had enormous influence on subsequent intellectual, economic, and political history.

He married German theatre critic and political activist Jenny von Westphalen in 1843. Due to his political publications, Marx became stateless and lived in exile with his wife and children in London for decades, where he continued to develop his thought in collaboration with German thinker Friedrich Engels and publish his writings, researching in the British Museum Reading Room.

Recently, historian and Congressman Ron Paul said, “Our country’s founders cherished liberty, not democracy.” In the other hand Karl Marx, who was an advocate of communism, supposedly claimed, 'Democracy is the road to socialism.'

People had continued to play with good and bad ideas. By 1831, William Lloyd Garrison was publishing The Liberator an abolitionist newspaper employing Karl Marx as his European correspondent.

'From the days of Sparticus, Wieskhopf, Karl Marx, Trotsky, Rosa Luxemberg, and Emma Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played a definite recognizable role in the tragedy of the French revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th century. And now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their head and have become the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.'
Winston Churchill, stated to the London Press, in 1922

Communism is a label but the same principles of evil and errant ways manifested in the original theory may be found under other labels like democratic socialism, socialism and progressive social justice. All you have to do is look at the Communist Manifesto and think. Under all forms of communism someone has the power of choice to compel the redistribution of the product of the labor of the individual which means there is never equality. Human greed for what your neighbor produced is the basis communism which compels the sharing of labor, while capitalism allows the individual the liberty of choice of sharing labor or not.

Democratic manifesto

Historian and Congressman Ron Paul said “Our country’s founders cherished liberty, not democracy.”

In the The Spirit of American Government, Professor J. Allen Smith wrote “It is difficult to understand, how any one who has read the proceedings of the Federal Convention can believe that it was the intention of that body to establish a democratic government.”

There was evidence of a difference in American thought creeping in back in the days of Davy Crockett and Horatio Bunce which all Americans should study.

Karl

Karl Marx, who was an advocate of socialism because it leads to communism, claimed “Democracy is the road to socialism.”

Marxism is a political and economic way of organizing society, where in theory the workers own the means of production. But in fact, like socialism.

It is a way of organizing a society in which the means of production are said to be owned and controlled by the collective but is actually controlled through a political system.

With the step by step implementation of each element of the communist manifesto the United States has manifested the soul of a communist nation while hypocritically still claiming to be a republic.

The ten planks are law

All ten planks of the Communist Manifesto have become law in the United States of America through a step by step process of growing dependence upon government. The creeping creation of institutions, bureaucracies, and systems of social welfare through legal charity, and the application and participation of the people in covetous practices which makes their children a surety for public debt have all contributed to a new world.

America's only hope is to admit the whole truth of its errors and learn to provide for its welfare through individual charity as it once did instead of the collective power of government.

Marx summarized his philosophy with, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”

Who chooses

The question remains who decides the “from” and who should decide the legitimacy of a “need”?

Since, “Freedom is the Right to Choose, the Right to create for oneself the alternatives of Choice. Without the possibility of Choice, and the exercise of Choice, a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing”, then you cannot have Marxism unless you take choice from the individual, making the man less a person and more a thing.

Man is an individual product of creation, and a singular means of production of creation with a natural right to choose.

But as a human, and a member of mankind, he must care about his fellowman's rights as much as his own.

Marxism by its nature is the end of the natural right to choose and freedom itself. In Marxism man becomes an instrument, a thing and little more than a means of production and a resource for those who seize power.

What price the soul

It is bad enough in the nature of Marxism a man looses his liberty but in his desire to benefit at his comrade's expense he also forfeits his soul and the loss of his humanity.

Marxism by its nature must take some of the power of choice away from the individual an grant that power to the political regime of the fatherland.

Man in his natural state may live by, “From each according to his ability and his free choice, to each according to his needs through the love and mercy of the individual.”

"But the soul renounced shall abide in the boundlessness of God's life. This is liberty, this is prosperity. The more we lose, the more we gain." - Watchman Nee

We dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others because as we judge so shall we be judged.

By contrast, socialism in This desire for benefits at the expense of others has quickly become a fictional hope as the people become the the means of productions a.k.a. human resources, merchandise. This always happen if you do not actively love one another at least as much as you love yourself in the practice of Pure Religion instead of the covetous practices of the world.

"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it." - Daniel Webster

Socialism in theory is said to be based on the idea that people will be compensated based on their level of individual contribution to the economy. But if a political system is based on covetous practices forcibly redistributing what is your neighbor's no one will be free nor will communities  be capable of effectively resisting tyrants and despots.

 Covid crises did not destroy lives and the economy of the nations, governments did.

Almost a hundred year of gradually accepting more and more socialist policies set the elements of destruction into motion. Because of an ever growing appetite for benefits and the wantonness habit of receiving from the government it has become acceptable in the minds of the people to receive gifts, gratuities, and grants from politician who exercise authority one over the other.  It is the avarice and sloth of the people that has instituted the rule  of force and altered the  thinking of society. People who care about themselves more than their neighbor brought this chaos, decay, and degeneration about. Until people start caring about their neighbor's rights as much as they say they care about their  own the people will continue to fall prey to tyranny.

People are so blinded by apathy and arrogance today they do not even recognize that all 10 planks of  the communist manifesto is law in America.

One of the major problems in America today is people do not know what direction they have been going, which is away from the Republic toward democracy and socialism and now communism. Some times they think they are headed toward liberty, when they are really on the road to despotism. Just a short look at the basics of Communist Manifesto

A SUMMARY OF THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO

1. Abolition of private property. (Legal title does not include the beneficial use of the property.)

2. Heavy progressive income tax. (An employee has only a legal title to his labor.)

3. Abolition to all rights of inheritance. (Inheritance tax on property with a legal title.)

4. Confiscation of property of all emigrants and rebels. (Asset Forfeiture - The USA PATRIOT Act, Forfeiture laws, Section 666.)

5. A Central bank (Federal Reserve. The Bankers Bank.)

6. Government control of Communications and Transportation. (F.C.C., F.A.A. etc..

• In the U.S., communication and transportation are controlled and regulated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) established by the Communications Act of 1934 and the Department of Transportation and the Interstate Commerce Commission (established by Congress in 1887), and the Federal Aviation Administration as well as Executive orders 11490, 10999 — not to mention various state bureaucracies and regulations including State mandated driver’s licenses. Federal Highway Act of 1916 made federal funds available to States for highway construction), the Interstate Highway System, 1944 (funding began 1956); Interstate Commerce Commission given authority by Congress to regulate trucking and carriers on inland waterways, 1935-40. There is also the federal postal monopoly, AMTRAK and CONRAIL — outright socialist (government-owned) enterprises. Instead of free-market private enterprise in these important industries, these fields in America are semi-cartels through the governments regulatory-industrial complex.)

7. Government ownership of factories and agriculture. (Corporations are entities of the State, Asset Forfeiture - The USA PATRIOT Act, Forfeiture laws, Section 666 executive orders and mere legal title.

• We call it corporate capacity, The Desert Entry Act and The Department of Agriculture. As well as the Department of Commerce and Labor, Department of Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, Bureau of Mines, National Park Service, and the IRS control of business through corporate regulations. The Agriculture Adjustment Act of 1933 provided that farmers will receive government aid if and only if they relinquish control of farming activities. In June 2009 Obama ordered General Motors to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. And, as you’ve also probably heard, the United States became the majority shareholder of the restructured company, with 60% of the stock. Nationalizing a large car manufacturer is just example of Barack Obama adopting the Communist Manifesto written by Karl Marx.)

8. Government control of labor. (Social Security, income tax and incorporation.)

9. Corporate farms, regional planning. (Land planning, Environmental Protection and, Endangered Species act, etc..)

10. Free education for all children in government controlled schools. (Public schools, 501c3 corporate private schools, controlled by federal regulations.)

This is why T. Coleman Andrews, Commissioner of IRS said in the May 25, 1956 in U.S. News & World Report article “Maybe we ought to see that every person who gets a tax return receives a copy of the Communist Manifesto with it so he can see what’s happening to him”.

If you examine the links above with an open mind you may not only discover the real problem but the real solution u only if you repent which means change the way you think.

People in America have been taught many things over the last 100 years, and since 1910, most of that has come through public schools, which are a socialist system of education.

Public Education is welfare. It is part of a system of Corban that provides benefits by force, not by charity.

James Madison may have thought "Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense." But the idea of everyone getting free education at the public expense does not fall under that description. Until 1910 most children were not educated at public expense and most public education was heavily dependent upon and control by private action of the people in the local community.

James Madison also said that "Charity is no part of the legislative duty of government."

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MARXIST IDEAS

The Communist Manifesto states the revolutionary aims of communism and maintains that capitalism must inevitably be destroyed. Das Kapital is Marx's analysis of the means of destruction.

Was Marx biased in his analysis?

Capitalism: A socio-economic system based especially on private ownership of the means of production and the exploitation of the labor force.

The "base" of every definition of capitalism is "private ownership" of the "means of production" which is the "private labor of the individual".

While the exploitation of labor may occur it is not inevitable. Since "private ownership" is a base element of capitalism in an economic approach it is the socio-elements that form a system around the base of that "private ownership of individual labor and the fruit of that labor".

Primitive Communism: "the ancient communal and State ownership which proceeds especially from the union of several tribes into a city by agreement or by conquest."

Karl Marx's bitterness lead him to write,

"Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks."

"With the development of private property, we find here for the first time the same conditions which we shall find again, only on a more extensive scale, with modern private property. On the one hand, the concentration of private property...; on the other hand, coupled with this, the transformation of the plebeian small peasantry into a proletariat"

capitalism: because of the eventual growth of commerce (and of human populations), feudal society began to accumulate capital, which, along with the increased debt incurred by the aristocracy, eventually led to the English Revolution of 1640 and the French Revolution of 1789, both of which opened the way for the establishment of a society structured around commodities and profit (i.e. capitalism). In such a society, the proletariat is fooled into believing that s/he is free because s/he is paid for his/her labor. In fact, the transformation of labor into an abstract quantity that can be bought and sold on the market leads to the exploitation of the proletariat, benefitting a small percentage of the population in control of capital. The working class thus experiences alienation since the members of this class feel they are not in control of the forces driving them into a given job. The reason for this situation is that someone else owns the means of production, which are treated like private property.

MARXIST QUOTES

“Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.”

“Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.”

“The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.”

“Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.”

“Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.”

“The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.”

“Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.”

“We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.”

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.”

“While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.”

“Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.”

“The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.”

“The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.”

“The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.”

“Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list – the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.”

“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.”

“It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.”

“Men make their own history.”

Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.

“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.”

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"This Bible is for the Government of the People, by the People, and for the People." is attributed to the General Prologue to the John Wycliffe Bible translation of 1384, as quoted in Lincoln at Gettysburg : An Address (1906) by Clark Ezra Carr, p. 75. [1]

MARRIAGE CONTRACT

(Document No. 715}

We,
Frederick William,
by the Grace of God
King of Prussia,
Grand Duke of Lower Rhine, etc., etc.,

herewith give notice and let it he known that:

Before the Undersigned Wilhelm Christian Heinrich Burger, royal Prussian notary in the residence of the town of Kreuznach, in the provincial-court district of Coblenz, and in the presence of the two witnesses named below, there appeared Herr Karl Marx, Doctor of Philosophy, resident in Cologne, on the one hand, and Fräulein Johanna Bertha Julie Jenny von Westphalen, without occupation, resident in Kreuznach, on the other hand.

The declarants stated that they intended to marry and in view of their future marriage, the celebration of which is to take place as soon as possible, they have mutually agreed and laid down the clauses and conditions and the consequences in civil law as follows:

Firstly. Legal common ownership of property shall be established between the future marriage partners insofar as this is not specially amended by the following articles.

Secondly. This common ownership shall also apply to all future fixed assets of the spouses by the future spouses hereby declaring all fixed assets which they will inherit in the future, or which will later fall to the lot of one or other of them, to be movable property, and putting these future fixed assets, which they give wholly into common ownership, on a par with movable property, whereby in accordance with Article fifteen hundred and five of the Civil Code their transformation into movable assets (:ameublissement:) takes place.

Thirdly. Each spouse shall for his or her own part pay the debts he or she has made or contracted, inherited or otherwise incurred before marriage; in consequence whereof these debts shall be excluded from the common ownership of property.

Thus everything has been agreed and settled between the future spouses. Concerning which the present marriage contract was adopted, which has been clearly read out to the interested parties.

Done at Kreuznach in the dwelling of the widow Frau von Westphalen, June twelfth of the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, in the presence of the attendant witnesses, personally known to the notary, Johann Anton Rickes, private gentleman, and Peter Beltz, tailor, both resident in Kreuznach. And in witness thereof the present document has been signed first by the above-mentioned declarants, the name, position and residence of whom is known to the notary, and after them by the above-mentioned witnesses and the notary.

The original, which has remained in the possession of the notary, and on which a stamp of two talers has been affixed, has been signed by:

"Dr. Karl Marx, Jenny von Westphalen, J. A. Rickes, Peter Beltz, and Burger, notary.

At the same time We order and instruct all executors of courts of justice on request to put into operation the present act; Our Procurators-General and Our Procurators at provincial courts of justice to administer the same; all officers and commandants of the armed forces or their representatives to lend a powerful helping hand if legally requested to do so.

In confirmation thereof the present main copy has been signed by the notary and furnished with his seal of office.

Vouching for the correctness of this main copy

Burger, notary

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Written: 1843;
Source: Marx Engels Collected Works Vol 3, pg 571-2;
Publisher: International Publishers (1975);
First Published: Marx/Engels, Gesamtausgabe, Abt. 1, Hb. 2, 1929;
Translated: Clemens Dutt;
Transcribed: S. Ryan;

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Can you answer some questions in the context of their use in history and the Bible?

Those people who seek the ways of communism which compels the redistribution of wealth have already rejected The Way of Christ and Moses which was the redistribution of wealth by charity and freewill offerings under the perfect law of liberty.

Some Questions

• What was the bondage of Egypt, and why were we to never go back there again?
• Have people given consent to a social compact that might enslave them, like in the days of Egypt?
• Why would the slothful be under tribute?
• Why did the Corban of the Pharisees make the word of God to none effect?
• Why did Jesus say "Call no man Father upon the earth"?
• Why did Jesus say not to be like the rulers who called themselves Benefactors?
• Why did Peter say covetous practices would make us Merchandise and curse children?
• What did Jesus list off as the Weightier matters?
• Why did Jesus command that the people sit down in Tens?
• What is Religion and what is Pure Religion?
• What was Public religion and the imperial Cult of Rome? How did it differ from Pure Religion practiced by early Christians?
• Why did the Church have a Daily ministration?
• How do the Modern Christians differ from the early Church who followed The Way of Christ?
• What were the deeds of the Nicolaitans, and why did God hate those deeds?
• What was the Christian conflict with Rome?
• Are modern Christians actually workers of iniquity?
• Do people today make covenants with the gods of this world because they love the wages of unrighteousness?
• What is the difference between the Baptism of John the Baptist and the Baptism of Herod or Constantine or Rabbinical Baptism?
• Israel was not to have a golden calf but what did that mean?
• What were the altars of earth and stone?
• What are lively stones?
• Was the Sabbath a way or a day?

More Questions

• Were those rituals of ancient societies merely mindless acts of superstition, or were they metaphors?
• What are the rituals of the Church, and do they point to The Way of Christ and God?
• Could Welfare systems of the world be Snares and Traps?
• And what does this all have to do with Nimrod, Cain and Caesar who called themselves Benefactors but exercise authority one over the other?
• What was the Mark of Cain and the Mark of God and even the Mark of the Beast?
• Did Constantine start a different Church not of Christ?
• Why did the people have to sew Breeches for the Levites?
• What was early Israel like before the Voice of the people rejected God?
• Why were they organized by Tens?
• How was the Early Church funded, and what did they use the funds for?
• Did it operate by force or Freewill offerings?
• Do all governments of the world operate according to the ways of God?
• Or do they operate according to the ways of Cain and Nimrod?
• Who were the Nicolaitans, and what did they do that included the error of Balaam, and why does God hate their deeds?
• What was Christ trying to tell us about the Fathers of the earth and who are they?
• And who is The Beloved Anarchist?
• What do you want to do about all this?

To find the answers, we must seek and strive to do what Jesus said the way He said to do it... Including attending to the Weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith which include caring for the needs of our neighbors and the widows and orphans of our society through Pure Religion in matters of health, education, and welfare. We are NOT to provide for the needy of society through the Covetous Practices and the men who call themselves benefactors but who exercise authority one over the other like the socialists do.

The Way of Christ was like neither the way of the world of Rome nor the governments of the gentiles who depend on those fathers of the earth through force, fear and fealty who deliver the people back in bondage again like they were in Egypt. Christ's ministers and true Christians do not depend upon systems of social welfare that force the contributions of the people like the corban of the Pharisees which made the word of God to none effect. Many people have been deceived to go the way of Balaam and the Nicolaitan and out of The Way of Christ and have become workers of iniquity.

The Christian conflict with Rome in the first century Church appointed by Christ was because they would not apply to the fathers of the earth for their free bread but instead relied upon a voluntary network providing a daily ministration to the needy of society through Faith, Hope, and Charity by way of freewill offerings of the people, for the people, and by the people through the perfect law of liberty in Free Assemblies according to the ancient pattern of Tuns or Tens as He commanded.

The modern Christians are in need of repentance.

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Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known by his alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician.

He promised them lots of things that they wanted - his slogan was peace, bread and land. This promise made him very popular.

Bolshevism (from Bolshevik) is a revolutionary socialist current of Soviet Marxist-Leninist political thought and political regime associated with the formation of a rigidly centralized, cohesive and disciplined party of social revolution, focused on overthrowing the existing capitalist state system, seizing power

Lenin's administration redistributed land among the peasantry and nationalised banks and large-scale industry. It withdrew from the First World War by signing a treaty conceding territory to the Central Powers, and promoted world revolution through the Communist International. Opponents were suppressed in the Red Terror, a violent campaign administered by the state security services; tens of thousands were killed or interned in concentration camps.

Meanwhile, Lenin's critics accuse him of establishing a totalitarian dictatorship which oversaw mass killings and political repression. Lenin endorsed the violent actions of others and exhibited no remorse for those killed for the revolutionary cause.

What Lenin said

“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.” ― Vladimir Lenin

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” ― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

“Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.” ― Vladimir Lenin

“A lie told often enough becomes the truth.” ― Vladimir Lenin

“Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.” ― Vladimir Lenin

“Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.” ― Vladimir Lenin

“Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.” ― Vladimir Lenin

“Sometimes - history needs a push.” ― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

“During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.” ― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, The State and Revolution

“The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.” ― Lenin

“The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.” ― Vladimir Ilich Lenin

“Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.” ― Vladimir Lenin

“The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.” ― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

“Every society is three meals away from chaos” ― Vladimir Lenin

“When a liberal is abused, he says, ‘Thank God they didn’t beat me.’ When he is beaten, he thanks God they didn’t kill him. When he is killed, he will thank God that his immortal soul has been delivered from its mortal clay.” ― Vladimir Lenin

“While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.” ― Vladimir Lenin, Estado y revolución

“Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism.” ― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

“I can't listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid nice things and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.” ― Vladimir Lenin

“The goal of Socialism is Communism.” ― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

“It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it. ” ― V. I. Lenin

“We are not utopians, we do not “dream” of dispensing at once with all administration, with all subordination. These anarchist dreams, based upon incomprehension of the tasks of the proletarian dictatorship, are totally alien to Marxism, and, as a matter of fact, serve only to postpone the socialist revolution until people are different. No, we want the socialist revolution with people as they are now, with people who cannot dispense with subordination, control, and "foremen and accountants".” ― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, The State and Revolution

“Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.” ― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

“There are no morals in politics; the is only experience. A scoundrel may be of use because he is a scoundrel” ― Vladimir Lenin

“Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.” ― Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

“All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.” ― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

“But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop, the greater is the concentration of production and capital which gives rise to monopoly?” ― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism: a popular outline

“Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.” ― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

“The intellectual forces of the workers and peasants are growing and getting stronger in their fight to overthrow the bourgeoisie and their accomplices, the educated classes, the lackeys of capital, who consider themselves the brains of the nation. In fact they are not its brains but its shit.” ― Vladimir Lenin, The Letters Of Lenin

“Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not our task to descend to the level of the 'working masses'.” ― Vladimir I lenin