Vladimir Lenin — "The 'dictatorship of the proletariat,' to use Marx's term, is the only possible …"
The 'dictatorship of the proletariat,' to use Marx's term, is the only possible form of transition from capitalism to communism.
Get This Quote & Author's Image Illustrated On:
Click any product to generate a realistic preview. Up to 3 at a time.
* Initial load can take up to 90 seconds — revising the preview in another color is nearly instant.
Kitchen
Apparel
Other
More from Vladimir Lenin
"We need to go for the throat."
"We need the whole of the state, the whole of the power, the whole of the violence, to crush the resistance of the exploiters."
"The entire history of revolutions shows that they are always accompanied by the most ruthless and bloody civil wars."
"The electrification of the whole country is the only way to overcome the backwardness of Russia."
"We are fighting for the complete victory of the proletariat and the peasantry."
About Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924)
Russian revolutionary who led the October 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and founded the Soviet state; What Is to Be Done? (1902) shaped 20th-century revolutionary practice. Closely associated with Leon Trotsky (his Red Army organizer and 1917 partner) and Karl Marx (the source Lenin claimed (and adapted)). For an intellectual contrast, see Karl Popper, Austrian-British philosopher — Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945) systematically attacked Marx-and-Lenin 'historical inevitability' as the philosophical structure that produces totalitarianism — Lenin's vanguard-party doctrine is Popper's primary 20th-century target.