The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

By destroying the peasant economy and driving the peasant from the country to the town, the famine creates a proletariat... Furthermore the famine can and should be a progressive factor not only economically. It will force the peasant to reflect on the bases of the capitalist system, demolish faith in the tsar and tsarism, and consequently in due course make the victory of the revolution easier... Psychologically all this talk about feeding the starving and so on essentially reflects the usual sugary sentimentality of our intelligentsia.

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.

The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them.

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

Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.