All countries will inevitably have to do what Russia has done.

We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistic philistines

America has become one of the foremost countries in regard to the depth of the abyss which lies between the handful of arrogant multimillionaires who wallow in filth and luxury, and the millions of working people who constantly live on the verge of pauperism.

The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief: either to perish, or to catch up with the advanced countries and outdistance them, too, in economic matters.