Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.
In the history of modern socialism this is a phenomenon, that the strife of the various trends within the socialist movement has from national become international.
Exchange, fair or unfair,always presupposes and includes the rule of the bourgeoisie.
Socialism means keeping account of everything. You will have socialism if you take stock of every piece of iron and cloth.
One man with a gun can control 100 without one. … Make mass searches and hold executions for found arms.
While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.
There are no morals in politics; the is only experience. A scoundrel may be of use because he is a scoundrel!
Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.
Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.
Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism.
What a waste that we lost Mussolini. He is a first-rate man who would have led our party to power in Italy.
Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not our task to descend to the level of the ‘working masses’.
Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.
The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.
Capitalists can buy themselves out of any crisis, so long as they make the workers pay
The revolution does not need historians.
Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
Competition becomes transformed into monopoly. The result is immense progress in the socialisation of production. In particular, the process of technical invention and improvement becomes socialised.
Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.
It is necessary sometimes to take one step backward to take two steps forward.
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