Vladimir Lenin — "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
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"We must not forget that a communist is not only a fighter, but also a builder."
"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 Communist Party is the vanguard of the proletariat, leading the working class to the seizure of power."
"The victory of socialism in one country is possible."
"If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years."
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.