Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.

Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital.

An end to wars, peace among the nations, the cessation of pillaging and violence - such is our ideal, but only bourgeois sophists can seduce the masses with this ideal, if the latter is divorced from a direct and immediate call for revolutionary action.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward--or go back

People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises.

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?

The entire trend of development is towards abolition of coercive domination of one part of society over another.