Vladimir Lenin

Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.

In the history of modern socialism this is a phenomenon, that the strife of the various trends within the socialist movement has from national become international.

The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.

It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty’s Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.

In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and tone.

Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don’t let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?

One of the reasons the US wants to control the oil is because profits flow back and they flow in a lot of ways. Its not just oil profits, it’s also military sales. The biggest purchaser of US arms and probably British arms is either Saudi Arabia or UAE, one of the rich oil producers.

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

It was not known in 1945 that we were not only entering the nuclear age, but entering a new geological epoch, what geologists call the Anthropocene, an epoch in which human activity is having severe and deleterious effects on the environment in which human and other life can survive.

Laws are like sausages. It’s better not to see them being made.

In sum, neoliberalism is the immediate and foremost enemy of genuine participatory democracy, not just in the United States but across the planet, and will be for the foreseeable future.

Other human rights atrocities from African slavery to the killing fields of Cambodia, the Armenian and Rwandan Genocides are all of course to be remembered, but diluting their particularity or comparing degrees of evil does no good.

You’re having a lot of fun, right? Suppose Hillary got elected instead of Trump, you think it would be so exciting?

The Recovery Act is working, but it’s going to continue to work. It’s not over. A lot’s going to happen this summer. And even after the summer, there’s more to come with the act.

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

The real surprise in the [2016] election was the Sanders campaign, which broke with a long tradition of pretty much bought elections, and was stopped only by machinations of the Obama-Clinton party managers.

It appears, our partners thought that this would never affect them, this counterproductive politics of restrictions and sanctions. But now we are seeing that this is happening.

[on Jeremy Cobyn] It is a different type of Labour Party. Can it be taken back? I don’t know