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"And we will succeed in doing this, because the spontaneously awakening masses will also produce increasing, numbers of ”professional revolutionaries“ from their own ranks (that is, if we do not take it into our heads to advise the workers to keep on marking time)."

-Lenin, Vladimir. What Is To Be Done?

"In a word, the growth of the working class movement is outstripping the growth and development of the revolutionary organisations."

-Lenin, Vladimir. What Is To Be Done?

"Class political consciousness can be brought to the workers only from without, that is, only from outside the economic struggle, from outside the sphere of relations between workers and employers."

-Lenin, Vladimir. What Is To Be Done?

"We are far more active than you think, and we are quite able to support, by open street fighting, even demands that do not promise any “palpable results” whatever. It is not for you to “raise” our activity, because activity is precisely the thing you yourselves lack. Bow less in subservience to spontaneity, and think more about raising your own activity, gentlemen!"

-Lenin, Vladimir. What Is To Be Done?

"The greater the spontaneous upsurge of the masses and the more widespread the movement, the more rapid, incomparably so, the demand for greater consciousness in the theoretical, political and organisational work of Social-Democracy."

-Vladimir Lenin. What Is To Be Done?

"There is no middle course (for mankind has not created a “third” ideology, and, moreover, in a society torn by class antagonisms there can never be a non-class or an above-class ideology)."

-Lenin, Vladimir. What Is To Be Done?

"At this point, we wish to state only that the role of vanguard fighter can be fulfilled only by a party that is guided by the most advanced theory."

-Lenin, Vladimir. What Is To Be Done?

"This “slight” difference our “free” copyists of German resolutions failed to notice."

-Lenin, Vladimir. What Is To Be Done?