A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.

Those who are opposed to armed uprising ... must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.

The only one who doesn't make mistakes is the one who doesn't do anything.

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

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong.

The goal of socialism is communism.