The leaders of the petty bourgeoisie must teach the people to trust the bourgeoisie. The proletarians must teach the people to distrust the bourgeoisie.

When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.

The suppression of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without violent revolution.

The entire trend of development is towards abolition of coercive domination of one part of society over another.

Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever.

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.

Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.