One man with a gun can control 100 without one. … Make mass searches and hold executions for found arms.
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.
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.
The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.
Exchange, fair or unfair,always presupposes and includes the rule of the bourgeoisie.
Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.
Sometimes – history needs a push.
This transformation of competition into monopoly is one of the most important-if not the most important-phenomena of modern capitalist economy.
It is necessary sometimes to take one step backward to take two steps forward.
Thus, the twentieth century marks the turning-point from the old capitalism to the new, from the domination of capital in general to the domination of finance capital.
The revolution does not need historians.
Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
It is more pleasant and useful to go through the ‘experience of the revolution’ than to write about it.
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.
Every society is three meals away from chaos.
The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
Capitalists can buy themselves out of any crisis, so long as they make the workers pay
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’.
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