Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.

If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil.

For the overthrow of the bourgeoisie, the efforts of one country are sufficient - for this we have the testimony of the history of our revolution. For the definitive victory of Socialism, for the organization of Socialist production, the efforts of one country, especially of a peasant country like Russia, are insufficient - for that are required the efforts of the proletarians of several advanced countries.

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.