Vladimir Lenin Socialism Quotations

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.

Imperialism, in a sense, is the transition stage from capitalism to Socialism. . . . It is capitalism dying, not dead.

It is not national interests we are upholding -- we claim that the interests of socialism, the interests of world socialism, rank higher than national interests, higher than the interests of the state. We are defenders of the socialist fatherland.

Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism. Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

The status of women up to now has been compared to that of a slave; women have been tied to the home, and only socialism can save them from this. They will only be completely emancipated when we change from small-scale individual farming to collective farming and collective working of the land.

The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them.

We shall not achieve socialism without a struggle.

Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.

Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.

The goal of socialism is communism.