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

There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.

Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.

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.

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.

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

What shall we call an "immediate possibility"? In 1923 the situation in Germany was profoundly revolutionary, but what was lacking for a victorious revolution was a correct strategy.