Leninism Under Lenin Quotes

“However solid the Party might be, however effective its methods of struggle, however clear, exalting and stirring its programme, all those qualities were meaningless except in relation to the Party's hinterland, its clientele, the milieu in which is sought recruits, its sphere of influence—to the class whose vanguard it sought to be, even more than its spokesman: namely, the proletariat.”
― Marcel Liebman, Leninism Under Lenin