We must be able to withstand everything, to agree to any and every sacrifice, and even — if need be — to resort to all sorts of strategems, manoeuvres and illegal methods, to evasion and concealment of the truth, in order to penetrate the trade unions, to remain in them, and to carry on Communist work in them at all costs.
— Vladimir Lenin Modern

Leader of Russian Revolution

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Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder

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1920

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Humorous

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https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/ch06.htm

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