“During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.” - Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution.
“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament.” - Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution.
“P.S. Trotsky has sent in a silly letter. We shall neither print it nor reply to him.” - Vladimir Lenin, Letter to Inessa Armand.
All of them from Vladimir “Big Vova” Lenin:
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