We are not utopians, we do not 'dream' of dispensing at once with all administration, with all subordination. These anarchist dreams, based upon a misunderstanding of the tasks of the proletarian dictatorship, are totally alien to Marxism, and, in fact, serve only to postpone the socialist revolution until the time when people will be different.
— Vladimir Lenin Modern

Leader of Russian Revolution

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The State and Revolution

Date / Period

1917

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Humorous

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https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch03.htm

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