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"To repeat Lenin is to repeat not what Lenin did but what he failed to do, his missed opportunities.”

“So Lenin the ultimate political strategist should in no way be separated from Lenin the ‘technocrat’ dreaming about scientific reorganization of production. The greatness of Lenin is that although he lacked the proper conceptual apparatus to think these two levels together, he was aware of the urgency of doing so- an impossible yet necessary task.”

“This is why - to take the extreme example - for Jews in today’s Israel, ‘Love thy neighbor!’ means ‘Love the Palestinians!’ or it means nothing at all.”

“ The poverty of the poor peasants, the horrors of war, the horrors of hunger - all these are showing the masses more and more clearly the correctness of the proletariat path, the need to support the proletarian revolution.”
Lenin

“The example of France shows one thing, and one thing only, namely, that to render Russia capable of self defense, to obtain in Russia, too, “miracles” of mass heroism, all that is obsolete must be swept away with “Jacobin” ruthlessness, and Russia renovated and regenerated economically.”

“It is hardly likely that any revolutionary government whatever could do without applying the death penalty to the exploiters (i.e. the landowners and capitalists).”

It is hardly likely that any revolutionary government whatever could do without applying the death penalty to the exploiters i.e. the landowners and S