The road to socialism lies through a period of the highest possible intensification of the principle of the state : Just as a lamp, before going out, shoots up in a brilliant flame, so the state, before disappearing, assumes the form of the dictatorship of the proletariat, i.e., the most ruthless form of state, which embraces the life of the citizens authoritatively in every direction...

As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the 'sacredness of human life.'

We have to run a hot iron down the spine of the Ukrainian kulaks - that will create a good working environment.

Root out the counterrevolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps... Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service...

The economic prerequisites for the socialist revolution are fully matured in the US. The political premises are likewise far more advanced than might appear on…

The leadership has failed. Even so, the leadership can and must be recreated from the masses and out of the masses. The masses are the decisive element, they a…

The passing of state power from one class to another is the first, the principal, the basic sign of a revolution, both in the strictly scientific and in the pr…