There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.
The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief.
Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.