It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
Vladimir LeninRead
Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.
Interpretation
Lenin emphasizes the crucial role of medicine in a socialist society.
This quote reflects Vladimir Lenin's belief that a robust healthcare system is fundamental to the social and economic structure of socialism. He suggests that without a strong emphasis on medicine and healthcare, the entire socialist framework could collapse, highlighting the importance of health as a cornerstone for societal well-being and equality.
In practice
During a lecture on socialist policies, one could use this quote to emphasize the importance of healthcare.
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
For the complete extinction of the state, complete Communism is necessary.
A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another.
We are not utopians, we do not βdreamβ of dispensing at once with all administration, with all subordination. These anarchist dreams, based upon incomprehension of the tasks of the proletarian dictatorship, are totally alien to Marxism, and, as a matter of fact, serve only to postpone the socialist revolution until people are different. No, we want the socialist revolution with people as they are now, with people who cannot dispense with subordination, control, and "foremen and accountants".
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
If dandelions were rare and fragile, people would knock themselves out to pay $14.95 a plant, raise them by hand in greenhouses, and form dandelion societies and all that. But, they are everywhere and don't need us and kind of do what they please. So we call them weeds and murder them at every opportunity
When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached. It is this way that in mathematics speculative theorems and practical canons are reduced by analysis to definitions, axioms and postulates.
If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.
Do we realize that industry, which has been our good servant, might make a poor master?
Let us never forget that authentic power is service, which has its radiant culmination on the Cross.
There was no black or white. Someone who had been good her entire life could, in fact, do something evil. People were just as capable of committing murder, under the right circumstances, as any monster.
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