The natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist.

The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.

You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.

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

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward--or go back

The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic.

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