ComradeBingo

Well, the thing is, you can't imitate a hen laying an egg properly if your heart's bleeding for the martyred proletariat.

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V.I Lenin The Revolutionary Upswing June 17 (4), 1912

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Very characteristic are the comments made on strikes by Severyanin, a liberal, which were welcomed by Russkiye Vedomosti and sympathetically reprinted by Rech:

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That is how the liberal reasons! And this piece of infinite vulgarity, meanness, and nastiness is sympathetically accepted by the “best” liberal papers, which claim to be democratic!

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V.I Lenin Socialism and War 1915

https://t.co/cYai2PtAvj

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Opportunism and social-chauvinism have the same economic basis: the interests of a tiny stratum of privileged workers and of the petty bourgeoisie who are defending their privileged position,

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... their “right” to crumbs of the profits “their” national bourgeoisie obtain from robbing other nations, from the advantages of their position as the ruling nation, etc.

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V.I Lenin, Socialism and War 1915

https://t.co/cYai2Pt2FL

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Socialists cannot achieve their great aim without fighting against all oppression of nations.

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The Socialist of a ruling or colony-owning nation who fails to champion this right is a chauvinist.

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V.I Lenin, Socialism and War, 1915

https://t.co/cYai2Pt2FL

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Imperialism is the epoch of the constantly increasing oppression of the nations of the world by a handful of “great” powers and,

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“No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations” (Marx and Engels). A proletariat that tolerates the slightest violence by “its” nation against other nations cannot be a socialist proletariat.

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V.I Lenin, March 11 (24), 1917 Letter from Afar

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If we do not draw women into public activity, into the militia, into political life; if we do not tear women away from the deadening atmosphere of household and kitchen; then it is impossible to secure real freedom, it is impossible even to build democracy, let alone socialism.