Vladimir Lenin — "If we want to achieve victory, we must learn to combine the most ruthless revolu…"
If we want to achieve victory, we must learn to combine the most ruthless revolutionary methods with the most cautious and pragmatic approach.
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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.
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Attributed, reflecting his blend of radicalism and pragmatism.
Date: circa 1917-1922
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