The principal and primary function of banks is to serve as an intermediary in the making of payments. In doing so they transform inactive money capit… - Vladimir Lenin

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The principal and primary function of banks is to serve as an intermediary in the making of payments. In doing so they transform inactive money capital into active capital, that is, into capital producing a profit; they collect all kinds of money revenues and place them at the disposal of the capitalist class.

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About Vladimir Lenin

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.

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Pen Names: Ленин Ильин Н. Ленин Старик К. Тулин Lenin
Native Name: Владимир Ильич Ленин
Alternative Names: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Vladimir Il'ich Lenin Vladimir Il'ich Ul'yanov V. I. Ul'yanov V. I. Lenin Vladimir Ulyanov Vladimir Ul'yanov V. I. Ulyanov Vl llyin Владимир Ильич Ульянов

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The nearer we come to the full military suppression of the bourgeoisie, the more dangerous becomes to us the high flood of petty-bourgeois Anarchism. And the struggle against these elements cannot be waged with propaganda and agitation alone. ... The struggle must also be waged by applying force and compulsion.

People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be until they have learnt to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises.

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