The bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of its class consciousness, is vitally interested in imposing its moral philosophy upon the exploited masses. It is exactly for this purpose that the concrete norms of the bourgeois catechism are concealed under moral abstractions...The appeal to abstract norms is not a disinterested philosophic mistake but a necessary element in the mechanics of class deception.

The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.'

Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.

A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.

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

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