Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge.
Russia is a name usurped by the Muscovites. They are not Slavs; they do not belong to the Indo-Germanic race at all, they are des intrus [intruders], who must be chased back across the Dnieper, etc.
The bureaucracy takes itself to be the ultimate purpose of the state
The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.