If the Russians claim they are Socialist, this is just, I would say, a lie. They have no socialism at all. They have what I would call a state capitalism.

Society, and the family as its psycho social agent, has to solve a difficult problem: How to break a person's will without his being aware of it? Yet by a complicated process of indoctrination, rewards, punishments, and fitting ideology, it solves this task by and large so well that most people believe they are following their own will and are unaware that their will itself is conditioned and manipulated.

Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience.

Women are equal because they are not different any more.

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him.

I believe indeed that to rescue the humanist tradition of the last decades is of the utmost importance, and that Victor Serge is one of the outstanding personalities representing the socialist aspect of humanism.