Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Russian: Владимир Ильич Ленин), born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Russian: Влади́мир Ильи́ч Ульянов) (22 April 1870 (10 April (O.S.)) – 21 January 1924) was a Russianrevolutionary, the leader of the Bolshevik communist party, the first Premier of the Soviet Union
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• People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises.
  • "Three Sources and Three Components of Marxism" (1913), as cited by Lloyd L. Brown in a letter to the editor "What Lenin Really Said", The New York Times (14 April 1990), p. 122

• The bourgeoisie incites the workers of one nation against those of another in the endeavour to keep them disunited. Class-conscious workers, realising that the break-down of all the national barriers by capitalism is inevitable and progressive, are trying to help to enlighten and organise their fellow-workers from the backward countries.
  • "Capitalism and Workers’ Immigration", in Za Pravdu No. 22 (29 October 1913); Collected Works, Vol. 24

• Man’s consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but creates it.
• Conspectus of Hegel’s Science of Logic — Book III : Subjective Logic or the Doctrine of the Notion (December 1914); Collected Works, Vol. 38, p.85-241

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Finland, 1905
35 years old