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The Jewish bourgeoisie are our enemies, not as Jews but as bourgeoisie. The Jewish worker is our brother.
For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.
Those who are opposed to armed uprising ... must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.
Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers.
Act with the greatest determination and on the offensive. The defensive is the death of every armed rising.
When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.
The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.
Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society.
The entire trend of development is towards abolition of coercive domination of one part of society over another.
Behind the October Revolution there are more influential personalities than the thinkers and executors of Marxism.
You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.
The bourgeoisie incites the workers of one nation against those of another in the endeavour to keep them disunited.
All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
Imperialism, in a sense, is the transition stage from capitalism to Socialism. . . . It is capitalism dying, not dead.
I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.
Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.
Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital.
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
When we say "the state," the state is We, it is we, it is the proletariat, it is the advanced guard of the working class.
To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.
There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
In the end, one or the other will triumph - a funeral dirge will be sung over the Soviet republic or over world capitalism.
The constitution of Soviet Russia must insure equal rights for all citizens regardless of sex, creed, race, or nationality.
Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.
The working class must break up, smash the "ready-made state machinery," and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it.
The Poor Peasants' Committees are necessary to fight the kulaks, the rich, the exploiters, who shackle the working peasants.
We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.
Capital, created by the labour of the worker, crushes the worker, ruining small proprietors and creating an army of unemployed.
Unity must be won, and only the workers, the class-conscious workers themselves can win it - by stubborn and persistent effort.
No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.
It is stupid to tolerate Nikola; all Chekists have to be on alert to shoot anyone who doesn't turn up to work because of Nikola.
The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.
A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.
In the last analysis, productivity of labour is the most important, the principal thing for the victory of the new social system.
We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.
The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic.
Victory will belong only to those who have faith in the people, those who are immersed in the life-giving spring of popular creativity.
Human thought by its nature is capable of giving, and does give, absolute truth, which is compounded of a sum-total of relative truths.
Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its power over nature.
The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the average political level of the masses.
Materialism is the recognition of "objects in themselves", or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects.
Germany will militarize herself out of existence, England will expand herself out of existence, and America will spend herself out of existence.
Where the bourgeois economists saw a relation between things (the exchange of one commodity for another) Marx revealed a relation between people.
Don't be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.
We must pursue the removal of church property by any means necessary in order to secure for ourselves a fund of several hundred million gold rubles.
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.