“Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.”

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Russian politician, led the October Revolution 1870–1924

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“Without a revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement. This cannot be insisted upon too strongly at a time when the fashionable preaching of opportunism is combined with absorption in the narrowest forms of practical activity.”

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Source: What is to be Done? (1902), Chapter One, Section D, Essential Works of Lenin (1966)

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