The experience of all revolutions confirms that only the proletariat, as the most advanced and consistently revolutionary class, can be the leader of the entire toiling and exploited people.
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"Comrades! The insurrection of the five kulak districts must be mercilessly suppressed. The interests of the whole revolution demand it, for 'the last decisive battle' with the kulaks is now underway e…"
"We must carry out a ruthless class struggle against the exploiters."
"The sound of music does not stir me. It acts on my nerves as an irritant. I am unable to listen to music."
"Pravda is a terrible word. It is a good word, but it is a terrible word. It means truth. And there is no truth."
"A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and mag…"
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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