Terror, as the demonstration of the will and strength of the working class, is historically justified, precisely because the proletariat was able thereby to break the political will of the intelligentsia, pacify the professional man of various categories and work, and gradually subordinate them to its own aims within the field of their specialties.

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

Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.

In 1925 - 27 the revolution in China was destroyed by the false revolutionary strategy of the Stalinist faction. To this last question I consecrate my book, Problems of the Chinese Revolution (issued by the Pioneer Publishers, New York 1932).

The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.

That the existence of the Soviet Union has an international revolutionary significance is a commonplace equally recognized by friends and foes.

Root out the counterrevolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps... Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.