The Soviet State does not need either illusions or camouflage. It can claim only that world authority which is confirmed by the facts.

The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.

Yet the proletariat has not only a vanguard, but also a rearguard, and besides the proletariat there are the peasantry and the bureaucracy.

In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.

Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.

Simultaneously the Left Opposition in the course of several years carried on a struggle against the Stalinists in favor of collectivization.

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.