October Revolution Quotes

• Behind the October Revolution there are more influential personalities than the thinkers and executors of Marxism.

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  Vladimir Lenin

  October Revolution   Personality   Influential  

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• It was the Russians that introduced the Chinese to Marxism. Before the October Revolution, the Chinese were not only ignorant of Lenin and Stalin but did not even know of Marx or Engels. The salvos of the October Revolution awoke us to Marxism-Leninism.

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  Mao Zedong

  Communication   October Revolution   Chinese  

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• In the appendix to my History of the Russian Revolution I give a detailed and documented study of the ideas of the Bolshevik party on the October revolution. This study, I hope, will make it impossible in the future to ascribe to [Vladimir] Lenin the theory of Socialism in a single country.

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  Leon Trotsky

  Country   Party   Ideas  

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• The "October Revolution" is a myth generated by the winners, the Bolsheviks, and swallowed whole by progressive circles in the West.

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  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Circles   October Revolution   West  

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• Capitalism has been fully restored in Yugoslavia, as is well-known, but this capitalism knows how to disguise. Yugoslavia portrays itself as a socialist state, but of a special kind, as the world has never seen it before! The Titoites even boast that their state has nothing in common with the first socialist state which emerged from the socialist October Revolution and which was founded by Lenin and Stalin on the basis of the scientific theory of Marx and Engels.

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  Enver Hoxha

  Yugoslavia   October Revolution   Special  

  "Yugoslav "Self-Administration" - Capitalist Theory and Practice". "Directions of the Development of the Political System of Socialist Self-Administration", Institute of Marxist-Leninist studies of the Central Committee of the Party of Labour of Albania, Tirana, 1978.

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• No one revolution up to now has brought all that was expected of it by the masses. Hence the inevitability of a certain disillusionment, of a lowering of the activity of the vanguard, and consequently, of the growing importance of the rearguard. [Joseph] Stalin's faction has raised itself on the wave of reaction against the October revolution.

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  Leon Trotsky

  October Revolution   Growing   Wave  

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• My congratulations on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution.

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  David Rockefeller

  Congratulations   October Revolution   Imf  

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• All revolutions are bloody. The October Revolution was bloodless, but it was only the beginning

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  Dmitri Volkogonov

  October Revolution   October   Revolution  

  Dmitri Volkogonov (1998). “Trotsky: Eternal Revolutionary”, Simon and Schuster

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• It is one of the ironies of this strange century that the most lasting results of the October revolution, whose object was the global overthrow of capitalism, was to save its antagonist, both in war and in peace - that is to say, by providing it with the incentive, fear, to reform itself after the Second World War, and, by establishing the popularity of economic planning, furnishing it with some of the procedures for its reform

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  Eric Hobsbawm

  War   October Revolution   Reform  

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