"The working class cannot achieve its emancipation without a revolutionary party."

"The working class, having taken power, will create its own state apparatus."

"Fascism is not merely a system of reprisals, of brutal force, and of police terror. Fascism is a particular governmental system based on the uprooting of all elements of proletarian democracy within b…"

"The permanent revolution, in the Marxian sense, means that the revolution does not stop at the democratic stage but goes over to the socialist stage."

"The function of the Red Army was not to preach, but to fight."