Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.
Vladimir LeninDictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by the use of violence by the proletariat against the bourgeoisie, rule that is unrestricted by any laws.
Vladimir LeninThere are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
Vladimir LeninYou have read and heard that communist theory-the science of communism created in the main by Marx, this doctrine of Marxism-has ceased to be the work of a single socialist of the nineteenth century, even though he was a genius, and that it has become the doctrine of millions and tens of millions of proletarians all over the world, who are applying it in their struggle against capitalism.
Vladimir Lenin