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

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

Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not our task to descend to the level of the 'working masses'.

All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.

Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.

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

All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all.