You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.

It would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a new form of war.

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.

But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism to Communism.

Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

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