Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.

We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as the immediate task of the coming revolutionary action.

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

It is necessary to be able to withstand all this, to agree to any and every sacrifice, and even - if need be - to resort to all sorts of stratagems, manoeuvres and illegal methods, to evasion and subterfuges in order to penetrate the trade unions, to remain in them, and to carry on Communist work in them at all costs.