Work

Vladimir Lenin on Work

Browse 10 quotations attributed to Vladimir Lenin, catalogued under work, with dates where available.

Politics
Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
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This page displays 10 quotations attributed to Vladimir Lenin and filed under "work" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.

Attributed to Vladimir Lenin, entry #129790: "International unity of the workers is more important than the national."

Attributed to Vladimir Lenin, entry #25140: "When we say "the state," the state is We, it is we, it is the proletariat, it is the advanced guard of the working class."

10 Quotes by Vladimir Lenin on Work

"International unity of the workers is more important than the national."

— Vladimir Lenin

"When we say "the state," the state is We, it is we, it is the proletariat, it is the advanced guard of the working class."

— Vladimir Lenin

"It is stupid to tolerate "Nikola;" all Chekists have to be on alert to shoot anyone who doesn't turn up to work because of "Nikola."

— Vladimir Lenin

"The Commune is the form "at the discovered" by the proletarian revolution, under which to work out the economic emancipation of labor."

— Vladimir Lenin

"Let us get down to work, to slower, more cautious, more persevering and persistent work!"

— Vladimir Lenin

"The interests of the working class and of its struggle against capitalism demand complete solidarity and the closest unity of the workers of all nations; they demand resistance to the nationalist policy of the bourgeoisie of every nationalist."

— Vladimir Lenin

"Admidst the colossal ruin of the country and the exhaustion of the forces of the proletariat, by a series of almost superhuman efforts, we are tackling the most difficult job: laying the foundations for really existing socialist economy, for the regular exchange of commodities between industry and agriculture."

— Vladimir Lenin

"They will furnish credits which will serve us for the support of the Communist Party in their countries and, by supplying us materials and technical equipment which we lack, will restore our military industry necessary for our future attacks against our suppliers. To put it in other words, they will work on the preparation of their own suicide."

— Vladimir Lenin

"There is no doubt that in a country where the overwhelming majority of the population consists of small agricultural producers, a socialist revolution can be carried out only through the implementation of a whole series of special transitional measures which would be superfluous in highly developed capitalist countries where wage-workers in industry and agriculture make up the vast majority."

— Vladimir Lenin

"Capitalism is commodity production at the highest stage of development, when labor power itself becomes a commodity. The growth of internal exchange, and particularly of international exchange, is a special feature of capitalism. The uneven and spasmodic character of the development of individual enterprises, of individual branches of industry and individual countries, is inevitable under the capitalist system."

— Vladimir Lenin