Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.
Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.
Sometimes - history needs a push.
Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
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.
The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.
The goal of Socialism is Communism.
Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism.
There are no morals in politics; the is only experience. A scoundrel may be of use because he is a scoundrel
One man with a gun can control 100 without one. ... Make mass searches and hold executions for found arms.
Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.
Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.
While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State. Lenin, "State and Revolution",
Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
And is it not sects, bodies of definite, uncompromising principles, that lead us into revolutions?
Every society is three meals away from chaos
Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not our task to descend to the level of the 'working masses'.
Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.
All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.
Exchange, fair or unfair,always presupposes and includes the rule of the bourgeoisie.
It is more pleasant and useful to undertake the experience of revolution than to write about it.
I can't listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid nice things and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.
Čovek nikada ne može biti dovoljno radikalan.Odnosno, čovek mora biti radikalan koliko i sama stvarnost.
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
Capitalists can buy themselves out of any crisis, so long as they make the workers pay
What a waste that we lost Mussolini. He is a first-rate man who would have led our party to power in Italy. [Addressing to a delegation of Italian socialists in Moscow after Mussolini's March on Rome in 1922]
The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.
Thus, the twentieth century marks the turning-point from the old capitalism to the new, from the domination of capital in general to the domination of finance capital.
The revolution does not need historians.
In the history of modern socialism this is a phenomenon, that the strife of the various trends within the socialist movement has from national become international.
This transformation of competition into monopoly is one of the most important—if not the most important—phenomena of modern capitalist economy,
Socialism means keeping account of everything. You will have socialism if you take stock of every piece of iron and cloth.
Competition becomes transformed into monopoly. The result is immense progress in the socialisation of production. In particular, the process of technical invention and improvement becomes socialised.
You probe with bayonets: if you find mush, you push. If you find steel, you withdraw
It is necessary sometimes to take one step backward to take two steps forward.
