"It is necessary to be able to withstand all this, to agree to any and every sacrifice, and even—if need be—to resort to all sorts of stratagems, manoeuvres and illegal methods, to evasion and subterfuges in order to penetrate the trade unions, to remain in them, and to carry on Communist work in them at all costs."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Reported in "'Left-Wing' Communism, An Infantile Disorder", V. I. Lenin; Selected Works (1938), vol. 10, p. 95.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Vladimir Lenin
politician, writer, economist
1870 – 1924 · Russian Empire
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Russian: Владимир Ильич Ленин), born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Russian: Влади́мир Ильи́ч Ульянов) (22 April 1870 (10 April (O.S.)) – 21 January 1924) was a Russian revolutionary, the leader of the Bolshevik communist party, the first Premier of the Soviet Union and the main theorist of Leninism. He married the revolutionary Nadezhda Krupskaya in 1898.
405 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Vladimir Lenin →
Related Quotes
"As leader and man Lenin possessed a selfless devotion to communist ideals and to the cause of the party and of the wo…"
"Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its…"
"Revolutionary Social-Democracy has always included the struggle for reforms as part of its activities. But it utilise…"
"A newspaper is not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, it is also a collective organiser."
"Human thought by its nature is capable of giving, and does give, absolute truth, which is compounded of a sum-total o…"
"The reflection of nature in man's thought must be understood not lifelessly but in the eternal process of movement, t…"
"It is particularly necessary to arouse in all who participate in practical work, or are preparing to take up that wor…"
"A basic condition for the necessary expansion of political agitation is the organisation of comprehensive political e…"
"This struggle must be organised, according to “all the rules of the art”, by people who are professionally engaged in…"
"The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being a…"