I don't care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.

The suppression of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without violent revolution.

We want to achieve a new and better order of society: in this new and better society there must be neither rich nor poor; all will have to work. Not a handful of rich people, but all the working people must enjoy the fruits of their common labour. Machines and other improvements must serve to ease the work of all and not to enable a few to grow rich at the expense of millions and tens of millions of people. This new and better society is called socialist society.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Why should freedom of speech and freedom of press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to be right allow itself to be criticized? It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns. Why should any man be allowed to buy a printing press and disseminate pernicious opinions calculated to embarrass the government?

When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.