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.

One cannot live in society and be free from society.

Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.

Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.

Germany will militarize herself out of existence, England will expand herself out of existence, and America will spend herself out of existence.

The whole struggle of our Party (and of the working class movement in Europe generally) must be directed against opportunism. The latter is not a current of opinion, not a tendency; it (opportunism) has now become the organised tool of the bourgeoisie within the working class movement.

Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.