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.

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

How can you make a revolution without executions?

One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.

We are not utopians, we do not “dream” of dispensing at once with all administration, with all subordination. These anarchist dreams, based upon incomprehension of the tasks of the proletarian dictatorship, are totally alien to Marxism, and, as a matter of fact, serve only to postpone the socialist revolution until people are different. No, we want the socialist revolution with people as they are now, with people who cannot dispense with subordination, control, and "foremen and accountants".

Freedom of speech and the press must be complete. But then freedom of association must be complete too.