Vladimir Lenin — "The most important thing is to win over the vanguard of the proletariat."
The most important thing is to win over the vanguard of the proletariat.
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"We must carry out a ruthless class struggle against the exploiters."
"The advanced guard of the proletariat, the Communist Party, is necessary to lead the working class."
"We stand for the complete destruction of the state."
"We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us."
"We must not forget that the state, even in a democratic republic, is an instrument of oppression of one class by another."
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.