Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.

Unity must be won, and only the workers, the class-conscious workers themselves can win it - by stubborn and persistent effort.

The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes.

The Poor Peasants' Committees are necessary to fight the kulaks, the rich, the exploiters, who shackle the working peasants.

Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.

For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.

Imperialism, in a sense, is the transition stage from capitalism to Socialism. . . . It is capitalism dying, not dead.