Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

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

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong.

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

Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.