A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.
Vladimir LeninFreedom of speech and the press must be complete. But then freedom of association must be complete too.
Vladimir LeninThe suppression of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without violent revolution.
Vladimir LeninThe oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
Vladimir LeninThe status of women up to now has been compared to that of a slave; women have been tied to the home, and only socialism can save them from this. They will only be completely emancipated when we change from small-scale individual farming to collective farming and collective working of the land.
Vladimir Lenin