Hundreds of thousands and millions of wage slaves of capital and peasants downtrodden by the serf-owners are going to the slaughter for the dynastic interests of a handful of crowned brigands, for the profits of the bourgeoisie in its drive to plunder foreign lands.

I don't care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.

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

The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes.

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

An end to wars, peace among the nations, the cessation of pillaging and violence - such is our ideal, but only bourgeois sophists can seduce the masses with this ideal, if the latter is divorced from a direct and immediate call for revolutionary action.

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