All VLADIMIR LENIN Quotes about “Democracy”

“People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.”
“Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.”
“A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another.”
“Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society.”
“Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd and reactionary both in the economic and the political sense.”
“To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament-this is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarism, not only in parliamentary- constitutional monarchies, but also in the most democratic republics.”
“Face the truth squarely. In politics that is always the best and the only correct attitude.”
“Politics is the most concentrated expression of economics.”
“False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.”
“Our idea is that a state is strong when the people are politically conscious. It is strong when the people know everything, can form an opinion of everything, and do everything consciously.”
“Don't be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.”
“All extremes are bad. All that is good and useful, if carried to extremes, may become-and beyond a certain limit is bound to become-bad and injurious.”
“Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.”
“Democracy is indispensable to socialism.”
“Democracy is a form of the state, it represents, on the one hand, the organized, systematic use of force against persons; but, on the other hand, it signifies the formal recognition of equality of citizens, the equal right of all to determine the structure of, and to administer, the state.”
“Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact, it screens the non-freedom and inferiority of women, the non-freedom and inferiority of the toilers and exploited.”
“If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world by orations on class collaboration?”

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