You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.

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

If we close our eyes to the dark sides of the workers' State which we have helped to create, we shall never reach socialism.

The main task of Socialism - the organization of Socialist production - remains still in the future.

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.

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.