It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.

If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.

When we are victorious on a world scale I think we shall use gold for the purpose of building public lavatories in the streets of some of the largest cities of the world.

As an ultimate objective, "peace" simply means communist world control.

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

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.