Behind the October Revolution there are more influential personalities than the thinkers and executors of Marxism.

Literature must become party literature. Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman of literature! Literature must become a part of the general cause of the proletariat.

No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.

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

Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever.

International unity of the workers is more important than the national.

When we are victorious on a world scale I think we shall use gold for the purpose of building public lavatories in the streets of some of the largest cities of the world.