A slave that understands his position and struggles against is a revolutionary. A slave that doesn’t understand that he is enslaved and vegetates in silent, unconscious and speechless life, is just a slave. A slave that salivates when complacently describing delights of slave life and that is enraptured by good and kind master is a cad, a serf.
All your talk about freedom and democracy is sheer claptrap, parrot phrases, fashionable twaddle, or hypocrisy. It is just a painted signboard. And you yourselves are whited sepulchres. You are mean-spirited boors, and your education, culture, and enlightenment are only a species of thoroughgoing prostitution.
Vladimir Lenin
1870 - 1924