People have always been the foolish victims of fraud and self-deception in politics, and they always will be until they learn to look for the interests of one class or another behind all moral, religious, political and social statements, declarations and promises. The champions of reform and improvement will always be deceived by the defenders of the old order until they realize that every old institution, however barbaric and rotten, is run by the forces of certain ruling classes. And there is only one way to shatter the resistance of those classes, and that is to find, in the society around us, the forces that can - and due to their social position must - constitute the force capable of sweeping away the old and creating the new, and enlightening and organizing these forces for struggle. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin The Three Sources and Three Constituent Parts of Marxism.

People have always been the foolish victims of fraud and self-deception in politics, and they always will be until they learn to look for the interests of one class or another behind all moral, religious, political and social statements, declarations and promises. The champions of reform and improvement will always be deceived by the defenders of the old order until they realize that every old institution, however barbaric and rotten, is run by the forces of certain ruling classes. And there is only one way to shatter the resistance of those classes, and that is to find, in the society around us, the forces that can - and due to their social position must - constitute the force capable of sweeping away the old and creating the new, and enlightening and organizing these forces for struggle. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin The Three Sources and Three Constituent Parts of Marxism.