There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

Our aim is to achieve a socialist system of society, which, by eliminating the division of mankind into classes, by eliminating all exploitation of man by man and nation by nation, will inevitably eliminate the very possibility of war.

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

We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as the immediate task of the coming revolutionary action.

A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistic philistines

False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.

Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.