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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.
The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth
The people will have the right to elect their representatives from a list of candidates [who have been approved by the Party].
As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the sacredness of human life.
I wrote a study about this question, The Lessons of October, which served as a pretext for my elimination from the government.
Americans are given the sole option of electing their jailer for four years and sometimes do him the honour of re-electing him.
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.
The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.
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.
We must not return to the practice of hiding our defects so they may not be seen. That would be neither honest nor revolutionary.
You know, comrade Pachman, I don't enjoy being a Minister, I would rather play chess like you, or make a revolution in Venezuela.
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.
If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades.
We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.
Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his truths.
The guerrilla band is not to be considered inferior to the army against which it fights simply because it is inferior in fire power.
Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.
The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic.
The interests of the IMF represent the big international interests that today seem to be established and concentrated in Wall Street.
The Soviet State does not need either illusions or camouflage. It can claim only that world authority which is confirmed by the facts.
A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the paredón [execution wall].
The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.
Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
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.
The ***** is indolent and lazy, and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent.
Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its power over nature.
I have sworn before a picture of the old and mourned comrade Stalin that I won’t rest until I see these capitalist octopuses annihilated.
We are not the ones who create revolutions. It is the imperialist system and its allies, internal allies, the ones who create revolution.
Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.
The usages and methods of warfare are thus determined by changing circumstances and, therefore, they themselves can in nowise be eternal.
Events can neither be regarded as a series of adventures nor strung on the thread of a preconceived moral. They must obey their own laws.
Everyday you have to fight so that love for humanity can be transformed into concrete deeds, into acts that set an example, that mobilize.
The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.
The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study.
While envisaging the destruction of imperialism, it is necessary to identify its head, which is no other than the United States of America.
Yet the proletariat has not only a vanguard, but also a rearguard, and besides the proletariat there are the peasantry and the bureaucracy.
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.
Simultaneously the Left Opposition in the course of several years carried on a struggle against the Stalinists in favor of collectivization.
It is not a matter of wishing success to the victim of aggression, but of sharing his fate; one must accompany him to his death or to victory
It is therefore not true that the mere existence of the Soviet Union is capable of assuring the victory of the revolution in other countries.