In the last analysis, productivity of labour is the most important, the principal thing for the victory of the new social system.

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

For the complete extinction of the state, complete Communism is necessary.

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

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".

We must pursue the removal of church property by any means necessary in order to secure for ourselves a fund of several hundred million gold rubles.

Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.