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".

You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.

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

One cannot live in society and be free from society.

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

Be as radical as Reality.

When we are victorious on a world scale I think we shall use gold for the purpose of building public lavatories in the streets of some of the largest cities of the world.