The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

Although the Russian bourgeois revolution of 1905-07 displayed no such "brilliant" successes as at time fell to the Portuguese and Turkish revolutions, it was undoubtedly a "real people's" revolution, since the mass of the people, their majority, the very lowest social groups, crushed by oppression and exploitation, rose independently and stamped on the entire course of the revolution the imprint of their own demands, their attempt to build in their own way a new society in place of the old society that was being destroyed.

We must '"go among all classes of the people" as theoreticians, as propagandists, as agitators and as organizers.

If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.

Victory will belong only to those who have faith in the people, those who are immersed in the life-giving spring of popular creativity.

Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.