We must be able to withstand everything, to agree to any sacrifice, and even — if need be — to resort to all sorts of strategems, manoeuvres, and illegal methods, to evasions and subterfuges, in order to get into the trade unions, to remain in them, and to carry on Communist work in them at all costs.
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"The opportunists are those who sacrifice the fundamental interests of the masses to the temporary interests of an insignificant minority."
"The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation."
"The working class is the only class that can truly lead the revolution."
"We need to clear the ground of this old rubbish. We must destroy everything that is old, rotten, and harmful."
"The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them."
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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