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

Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.

The Poor Peasants' Committees are necessary to fight the kulaks, the rich, the exploiters, who shackle the working peasants.

It is necessary - secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.

You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.

The status of women up to now has been compared to that of a slave; women have been tied to the home, and only socialism can save them from this. They will only be completely emancipated when we change from small-scale individual farming to collective farming and collective working of the land.

By destroying the peasant economy and driving the peasant from the country to the town, the famine creates a proletariat... Furthermore the famine can and should be a progressive factor not only economically. It will force the peasant to reflect on the bases of the capitalist system, demolish faith in the tsar and tsarism, and consequently in due course make the victory of the revolution easier... Psychologically all this talk about feeding the starving and so on essentially reflects the usual sugary sentimentality of our intelligentsia.