All the other large and small nationalities and peoples are destined to perish before long in the revolutionary world storm. The next world war will result in the disappearance from the face of the earth not only of reactionary classes and dynasties, but also of entire reactionary peoples. And that, too, is a step forward.

Without analysis, no synthesis.

What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.

In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.

In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.

If in all ideology men and their circumstances appear upside-down as in a camera obscura, this phenomenon arises just as much from their historical life-process as the inversion of objects on the retina does from the physical life-process.

Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.