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

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

Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

How can you make a revolution without executions?

Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.

You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.