The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.

The threat is generally more terrifying than the thing itself.

Change means movement. Movement means friction.

A Marxist begins with his prime truth that all evils are caused by the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists. From this he logically proceeds to the revolution to end capitalism, then into the third stage of reorganization into a new social order of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and finally the last stage -- the political paradise of communism.

True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within.

A revolution without a prior reformation would collapse or become a totalitarian tyranny. A reformation means that masses of our people have reached the point of disillusionment with past ways and values. They don't know what will work but they do know that the prevailing system is self-defeating, frustrating, and hopeless. They won't act for change but won't strongly oppose those who do. The time is then ripe for revolution

The third rule of ethics of means and ends is that in war the end justifies almost any means.