The Incredible Vladimir Lenin: State and Revolution
“Democracy is a form of the state, it represents, on the one hand, the organized, systematic use of force against persons; but, on the other hand, it signifies the formal recognition of equality of citizens, the equal right of all to determine the structure of, and to administer, the state…
“Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich – that is the democracy of capitalist society … The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament. And so in capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The dictatorship of the proletariat, the period of transition to communism, will for the first time create democracy for the people, for the majority, along with the necessary suppression of the exploiters, of the minority.”
– Vladimir Ilyich Lenin –(22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924)
Born on 22 April 1870, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was the greatest revolutionary of our time. More than any other man of the twentieth century, Lenin changed the history and thought of our epoch. Founder of the Bolshevik Party (which later became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union), Lenin’s main concern as a practical revolutionary was the victory of the Russian workers and peasants over the vicious tsarist tyranny. The Great O
