What the "Friends of the People" Are and How They Fight the Social-Democrats Quotes

“To regard the categories of the bourgeois system as eternal and natural is most typical of bourgeois philosophers.”
― V.I. Lenin, What the "Friends of the People" Are and How They Fight the Social-Democrats

“even the most artful guardians of the present system cannot prevent the awakening of proletarian thought.”
― V.I. Lenin, What the "Friends of the People" Are and How They Fight the Social-Democrats

“when there is no materialist criticism of political institutions, and when the class character of the modern state is not understood, it is only one step from political radicalism to political opportunism.”
― Vladimir Lenin, What the "Friends of the People" Are and How They Fight the Social-Democrats

“The reason such elementary things have to be explained to the Russian "democrats" is that they are so immersed right up to their ears in the mud of petty-bourgeois ideas that to imagine any but a petty-bourgeois order of things is quite beyond them.”
― Vladimir Lenin, What the "Friends of the People" Are and How They Fight the Social-Democrats