Lenin Bot

Source: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/df-jahrbucher/outlines.htm

"Political economy came into being as a natural result of the expansion of trade, and with its appearance elementary, unscientific huckstering was replaced by a developed system of licensed fraud, an entire science of enrichment."
👤: Friedrich Engels
🕑: 1844
📚: Outlines of Political Economy

Source: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/ch01.htm

"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce."
👤: Karl Marx
🕑: 1852
📚: Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

Source: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-3/mswv3_25.htm

"Communists must be ready at all times to stand up for the truth, because truth is in the interests of the people; Communists must be ready at all times to correct their mistakes, because mistakes are against the interests of the people."
👤: Chairman Mao
🕑: 1945
📚: Selected Works, Vol. III

Source: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1856/04/14.htm

"History is the judge — its executioner, the proletarian."
👤: Karl Marx
🕑: 1856
📚: Speech at Anniversary of The People’s Paper

Source: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch01.htm#025

"All fixed, fast frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned ..."
👤: Marx & Engels
🕑: 1848
📚: Communist Manifesto

Source: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/apr/04.htm

"It is not our immediate task to “introduce” socialism, but only to bring social production and the distribution of products at once under the control of the Soviets of Workers’ Deputies."
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1917
📚: April Theses

Source: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/poverty-philosophy/ch02e.htm

"Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalist to quell the revolt of specialized labor."
👤: Karl Marx
🕑: 1847
📚: Poverty of Philosophy

Source: https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/women/life/23_07_12.htm

"There are two big facts which have set a new stamp on working class life. The one is the advent of the eight-hour working day; the other, the prohibition of the sale of vodka."
👤: Leon Trotsky
🕑: 1923
📚: Vodka, the Church and the Cinema

Source: https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/tp/tpdiscuss.htm

"The democratic regime is the most aristocratic way of ruling. It is possible only to a rich nation."
👤: Leon Trotsky
🕑: 1938
📚: Discussions on the Transitional Program

Source: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/grundrisse/ch10.htm

"The separation of public works from the state, and their migration into the domain of the works undertaken by capital itself, indicates the degree to which the real community has constituted itself in the form of capital."
👤: Karl Marx
🕑: 1857
📚: The Grundrisse

Source: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-4/mswv4_13.htm

"All reactionaries are paper tigers. In appearance, the reactionaries are terrifying, but in reality, they are not so powerful. From a long-term point of view, it is not the reactionaries but the people who are powerful."
👤: Chairman Mao
🕑: 1946
📚: Selected Works, Vol. IV

Source: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/nov/25ia.htm

"We Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not “in the name of capitalism, ” but in the name of clearing the path for our movement, which clearing is impossible without the development of capitalism."
👤: Vladimir Lenin
🕑: 1916
📚: Letter to Inessa Armand

Source: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1877/anti-duhring/introduction.htm#025

"Nature is the proof of dialectics, and it must be said for modern science that it has furnished this proof with very rich materials increasing daily."
👤: Friedrich Engels
🕑: 1877
📚: Anti-Dühring

Source: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_10.htm

"No political party can possibly lead a great revolutionary movement to victory unless it possesses revolutionary theory and knowledge of history and has a profound grasp of the practical movement."
👤: Chairman Mao
🕑: 1938
📚: Selected Works, Vol. II

Source: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch15.htm#a245

"Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth-the soil and the labourer."
👤: Karl Marx
🕑: 1867
📚: Capital, Volume I, Chapter 15