Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

Take the ideas of the masses and concentrate them, then go to the masses, persevere in the ideas and carry them through, so as to form correct ideas of leadership-such is the basic method of leadership.

Conditions are changing all the time, and to adapt one's thinking to the new conditions, one must study. Even those who have a better grasp of Marxism and are comparatively firm in their proletarian stand have to go on studying, have to absorb what is new and study new problems.

Look at World War II, at Hitler's cruelty. The more cruelty, the more enthusiasm for revolution.

. . . dogma is less useful than cow dung. One can make whatever one likes out of it, even revisionism. . . .

Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well.

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.