In Russia itself the proletariat conquered in spite of the fact that there was no Soviet State in existence at the time elsewhere. For the victory are necessary, not only certain objective conditions, internal as well as external, but also certain subjective factors - the Party, the leadership, the strategy.

There is no justice in bureaucracy for the individual, for bureaucracy caters only to itself. One cannot practice the same bureaucracy as one is fighting against.

I wrote a study about this question, The Lessons of October, which served as a pretext for my elimination from the government.

He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.

The Left Opposition declared that the new tempo of industrialization were above our forces, and that the liquidation of the kulaks as a class in the course of three years was a fantastic task, if one wishes to say so, we find ourselves this time "less radical" than the Stalinists.

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

Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.