Our aim is to achieve a socialist system of society, which, by eliminating the division of mankind into classes, by eliminating all exploitation of man by man and nation by nation, will inevitably eliminate the very possibility of war.

Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.

But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism to Communism.

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

We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.

Russians are too kind, they lack the ability to apply determined methods of revolutionary terror.

We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.