In the end, one or the other will triumph - a funeral dirge will be sung over the Soviet republic or over world capitalism.

No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.

Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom.

Lenin, the greatest man of action in our century and at the same time the most selfless.

The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief: either to perish, or to catch up with the advanced countries and outdistance them, too, in economic matters.