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

The status of women up to now has been compared to that of a slave; women have been tied to the home, and only socialism can save them from this. They will only be completely emancipated when we change from small-scale individual farming to collective farming and collective working of the land.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital.

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

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.