Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.

If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

The goal of socialism is communism.