Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.

Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.

Those who are opposed to armed uprising ... must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

Our aim is to achieve a socialist system of society, which, by eliminating the division of mankind into classes, by eliminating all exploitation of man by man and nation by nation, will inevitably eliminate the very possibility of war.

One cannot live in society and be free from society.

If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.