While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.
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.
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
What a waste that we lost Mussolini. He is a first-rate man who would have led our party to power in Italy.
Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.
Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.
Capitalists can buy themselves out of any crisis, so long as they make the workers pay
The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.
The goal of Socialism is Communism.
This transformation of competition into monopoly is one of the most important-if not the most important-phenomena of modern capitalist economy.
I can’t listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid nice things and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism.
You probe with bayonets: if you find mush, you push. If you find steel, you withdraw.
The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
It is necessary sometimes to take one step backward to take two steps forward.
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.
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