Vladimír Iljič Lenin citáty

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„Kapitalisté se mohou vykoupit z jakékoli krize, dokud budou platit dělníci.“

„Když pracuješ, nestyď se říci lidem, kteří ti překážejí, že ti překážejí.“

„Mám rád, když se lidé přou, znamená to, že vědí, co dělají a že mají směr.“

„Pravda nesmí záviset na tom, komu bude sloužit!“

„Zvelič pravdu a máš hloupost.“

„Aby se dosáhlo velkého, je třeba začít s menším.“

„Kapitalisti sami nám prodají provaz, na kterém je my pověsíme.“

„Všechno souvisí se vším!“

„Někdy je nutné učinit jeden krok zpět, abyste mohli učinit dva kroky vpřed.“

„Chceme-li zničit národ, musíme nejprve zničit jeho morálku, a padne nám do klína jako zralé ovoce.“

„Bez vědění jsou dělníci bezbranní, dělníci s věděním jsou síla!“

„Marxismus je všemocný, protože je pravdivý!“

„Jestliže vím, že znám málo, dosáhnu toho, že budu znát více.“

„Bolševik, který napadá drobného rolníka, není bolševikem, není ani reformistou a ani pokrokovým socialistou, ale je zločincem.“

„Důvěra je dobrá, kontrola je lepší.“

„Učit se, učit se, učit se!“

„O rozhodnutích ústředního výboru se nediskutuje.“

„Cílem socialismu je komunismus.“

„Jeden muž se zbraní může ovládat 100 bez ní.“

„Je pravda, že svoboda je vzácná - tak vzácná, že musí být přidělena.“

„V politice není žádná morálka; je to jen zkušenost. Démon může být užitečný, protože je to darebák.“

„Situace je výjimečná, a my musíme zahájit výjimečný teror.“

„Rovnost podle zákona ještě není rovností v životě. My potřebujeme, aby pracující žena dosáhla rovnosti s pracujícím mužem nejen podle zákona, ale také v životě. To si vyžaduje, aby se pracující ženy čím dále tím více zúčastňovaly na správě společenských institucí, na správě státu.“

„Dej mi jen jednu generaci mladých a proměním celý svět.“

„Jsme antivlastenci.“

„Noviny, které zůstávají pozadu, jsou mrtvé. Noviny musí kráčet přede všemi. Monotónnost a zaostávání jsou s činností novin neslučitelné.“

„Ať se obrátíme kamkoli, na každém kroku se setkáváme s úkoly, které je lidstvo s to okamžitě úplně rozřešit. Brání tomu kapitalismus. Nakupil hromady bohatství - a udělal z lidí otroky tohoto bohatství. Rozřešil nejsložitější technické otázky - a zabrzdil provedení technických zlepšení pro bídu a nevědomost milionů obyvatel, pro tupé mamonářství hrstky milionářů.“

„Když je liberál zneužíván, říká: „Díky bohu, že mě nezranili.“ Když je poražen, děkuje Bohu, že ho nezabil. Když je zabit, bude Bohu děkovat, že jeho nesmrtelná duše byla vysvobozena ze své smrtelné hlíny.“

„Nelíbí se vám to barbarství? Nezlobte se, odpovídají Vám dějiny: Mají rády to, čím jsou bohaté. Toto jsou pouze následky činů minulých.“

„Každá společnost je vzdálena jen tři chody jídla od chaosu.“

„Revoluce nepotřebuje historiky.“

„Komunismus je sovětská vláda plus elektrifikace celé země. Jinak země zůstane zemí malé rolnické ekonomiky a je na nás, abychom si to zcela jasně uvědomili.“

„Zvláště schvaluji a vítám zatčení milionářských sabotérů v prvním a druhém železničním voze.“

„Je příjemnější a užitečnější projít "zkušeností z revoluce" než o ní psát.“

„Výměna, spravedlivá nebo nespravedlivá, vždy předpokládá a zahrnuje pravidlo buržoazie.“

„Pozornost musí být věnována hlavně výchově pracovníků na úroveň revolucionářů; není naším úkolem sestupovat na úroveň „pracovních mas“.“

„Socializovaná medicína je základním kamenem oblouku socialistického státu.“

„Propagátor … působí hlavně slovem tištěným, agitátor pak slovem živým. Od propagátora se vyžadují jiné vlastnosti než od agitátora.“

„Všechny lidské názory se až dosud utvářely v pozemských měřítcích, opíraly se o předpoklad, že technika nikdy nepřekročí zemskou sféru. Jakmile se však lidstvu podaří vyjít do meziplanetárních prostor, bude třeba přezkoumat a zrevidovat všechny naše názory filosofické, sociální i morální.“

“To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong”

“Those who are opposed to armed uprising … must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.”

“The Government of the proletarian dictatorship, together with the Communist Party and trade unions, is of course leaving no stone unturned in the effort to overcome the backward ideas of men and women, to destroy the old un-communist psychology. In law there is naturally complete equality of rights for men and women. And everywhere there is evidence of a sincere wish to put this equality into practice. We are bringing the women into the social economy, into legislation and government. All educational institutions are open to them, so that they can increase their professional and social capacities. We are establishing communal kitchens and public eating-houses, laundries and repairing shops, nurseries, kindergartens, children’s homes, educational institutes of all kinds. In short, we are seriously carrying out the demand in our programme for the transference of the economic and educational functions of the separate household to society. That will mean freedom for the woman from the old household drudgery and dependence on man. That enables her to exercise to the full her talents and her inclinations. The children are brought up under more favourable conditions than at home.”

“The wall is rotten. One good shove and it will collapse.”

“The proletariat should not ignore peaceful methods of struggle — they serve its ordinary, day-to-day interests, they are necessary in periods of preparation for revolution — but it must never forget that in certain conditions the class struggle assumes the form of armed conflict and civil war; there are times when the interests of the proletariat call for ruthless extermination of its enemies in open armed clashes. This was first demonstrated by the French proletariat in the Commune and brilliantly confirmed by the Russian proletariat in the December uprising.”

“The bourgeoisie sees practically one one aspect of Bolshevism - insurrection, violence, and terror; it therefore strives to prepare itself for resistance and opposition primarily in this field. It is possible that, in certain instances, in certain countries, and for certain brief periods, it will succeed in this. We must reckon with such an eventuality, and we have absolutely nothing to fear if it does succeed. Communism is emerging in positively every sphere of public life; its beginnings are to be seen literally on all sides.”

“One will readily agree that any army which does not train to use all the weapons, all the means and methods of warfare that the enemy possesses, or may posses, is behaving in an unwise or even criminal manner. This applies to politics even more than it does to the art of war.”

“The abolition of classes means, not merely ousting the landowners and the capitalists - that is something we accomplished with comparative ease; it also means abolishing the small commodity producers, and they cannot be ousted, or crushed; we must learn to live with them.”

“The economic basis for a true Socialist Republic does not yet exist… Communism is failing. Russian expectations are not towards communism, but towards capitalism…. The capitalist classes are advancing in serried ranks towards the promised land, destined to become in a few decades one of the greatest productive forces in the world.”

“In particular, a free market and capitalism, both subject to state control, are now being permitted and are developing; on the other hand, the socialised state enterprises are being put on what is called a profit basis, i. e., they are being reorganised on commercial lines, which, in view of the general cultural backwardness and exhaustion of the country, will, to a greater or lesser degree, inevitably give rise to the impression among the masses that there is an antagonism of interest between the management of the different enterprises and the workers employed in them.”

“When a real army is in retreat, machine guns are kept ready, and when an orderly retreat degenerates into a disorderly one, the command to fire is given, and quite rightly, too.”

“In the sea of people we are after all but a drop in the ocean, and we can administer only when we express correctly what the people are conscious of. Unless we do this the Communist Party will not lead the proletariat, the proletariat will not lead the masses, and the whole machine will collapse.”

“Political events are always very confused and complicated. They can be compared with a chain. To hold the whole chain you must grasp the main link. Not a link chosen at random.”

“The idea of building communist society exclusively with the hands of the Communists is childish, absolutely childish. We communists are but a drop in the ocean, a drop in the ocean of the people.”

“The retreat has come to an end; it is now a matter of regrouping our forces. These are the instructions that the Congress must pass so as to put an end to fuss and bustle. Calm down, do not philosophize; if you do, it will be counted as a black mark against you. Show by your practical efforts that you can work no less efficiently than the capitalists. The capitalists create an economic link with the peasants in order to amass wealth; you must create a link with peasant economy in order to strengthen the economic power of our proletarian state. You have the advantage over the capitalists in that political power is i n your hands; you have a number of economic weapons at your command; the only trouble is that you cannot make proper use of them.”

“Retreat is a difficult matter, especially for revolutionaries who are accustomed to advance; especially when they have been accustomed to advance with enormous success for several years; especially if they are surrounded by revolutionaries in other countries who are longing for the time when they can launch an offensive.”

“We need a real test. The capitalists are operating alongside us. They are operating like robbers; they make profit; but they know how to do things. But you - you are trying to do it in a new way: you make no profit, your principles are communist, your ideals are splendid; they are written out so beautifully that you seem to be saints, that you should go to heaven while you are still alive. But can you get things done? We need a test, a real test, not the kind the Central Control Commission makes when it censures somebody and the All-Russia Central Executive Committee imposes some penalty. Yes, we want a real test from the view point of the national economy.”

“Let us get down to work, to slower, more cautious, more persevering and persistent work!”

“Admidst the colossal ruin of the country and the exhaustion of the forces of the proletariat, by a series of almost superhuman efforts, we are tackling the most difficult job: laying the foundations for really existing socialist economy, for the regular exchange of commodities (or, more correctly, exchange of products) between industry and agriculture.”

“There is no doubt that in a country where the overwhelming majority of the population consists of small agricultural producers, a socialist revolution can be carried out only through the implementation of a whole series of special transitional measures which would be superfluous in highly developed capitalist countries where wage-workers in industry and agriculture make up the vast majority.”

“The way the enemies of the proletariat take advantage of every deviation from a thoroughly consistent communist line was perhaps most strikingly shown in the case of the Kronstadt mutiny, when the bourgeois counter-revolutionaries and whiteguards in all countries of the world immediately expressed their readiness to accept the slogans of the Soviet system, if only they might thereby secure the overthrow of the dictatorship of the proletariat in Russia, and when the Socialist revolutionaries and the bourgeois counter-revolutionaries in general resorted in Kronstadt to slogans calling for an insurrection against the Soviet Government of Russia ostensibly in the interest of the Soviet power.”

“The economic basis for the complete withering away of the state is such a high stage of development of communism at which the antithesis between mental and physical labour disappears, at which there consequently disappears one of the principal sources of modern social quality - a source, moreover, which cannot on any account be removed immediately by the mere conversion of the means of production into public property, by the mere expropriation of the capitalists.”

“A state arises, a special force is created in the form of special bodies of armed men, and every revolution, by destroying the state apparatus, demonstrates to us how the ruling class strives to restore the special bodies of armed men which serve it, and how the oppressed class strives to create a new organization of this kind, capable of serving not the exploiters but the exploited.”

“In such circumstances, in view of the incredibly widespread nature of the distortions of Marxism, our first task is to restore the true doctrine of Marx on the state.”

“Imperialism is the epoch of finance capital and of monopolies, which introduce everywhere the striving for domination, not for freedom. Whatever the political system, the result of these tendencies is everywhere reaction and an extreme intensification of antagonisms in this field. Particularly intensified become the yoke of national oppression and the striving for annexations, i. e., the violation of national independence (for annexation is nothing but the violation of the right of nations to self-determination).”

“We must now try to sum up, to draw together the threads of what has been said above on the subject of imperialism. Imperialism emerged as the development and direct continuation of the fundamental characteristics of capitalism in general. But capitalism only became capitalist imperialism at a definite and very high stage of its development, when certain of its fundamental characteristics began to change into their opposites, when the features of the epoch of transition from capitalism to a higher social and economic system had taken shape and revealed themselves in all spheres. Economically, the main thing in this process is the displacement of capitalist free competition by capitalist monopoly.”

“Generally speaking, under capitalism, the ownership of capital is separate from the application of capital to production; money capital is separate from industrial or productive capital; the rentier, living entirely on income obtained from money capital, is separated from the entrepreneur and from all those directly concerned in the management of capital.”

“You must side with one of the two immensely wealthy and immensely powerful groups of imperialist predators - that is how capitalist reality poses the basic issue of present-day foreign policy.”

“The basic question of every revolution is that of state power. Unless this question is understood, there can be no intelligent participation in the revolution, not to speak of guidance of the revolution. The highly remarkable feature of our revolution is that it has brought about dual power.”