The transition from capitalism to communism will certainly create a great variety of political forms, but their essence will inevitably be the same: the dictatorship of the proletariat.
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"There is no 'democracy' in the abstract, there is only class democracy."
"We must learn, learn, and learn again."
"Socialism is an accounting office. That is all socialism is."
"The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses."
"Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever."
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.
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