"Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes …"

"The working class, having seized power, cannot remain within the framework of bourgeois democracy."

"The permanent revolution, in the Marxian sense, means that the complete, decisive, and radical solution of the tasks of the democratic revolution is conceivable only through the dictatorship of the pr…"

"The history of a revolution is for us first of all the history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny."

"The worker who is not a revolutionary is not a worker."