Quote#Politics & Power
Until the "higher" phase of communism arrives, the socialists demand…
Quote byVladimir Lenin · 1870–1924
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: ' (1917), Lenin Anthology, p. 380.
English (original)
Until the "higher" phase of communism arrives, the socialists demand the strictest control by society and by the state over the measure of labour and the measure of consumption; but this control must start with the expropriation of the capitalists, with the establishment of workers' control over the capitalists, and must be exercised not by a state of bureaucrats, but by a state of armed workers.
— Vladimir Lenin
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