A revolutionary class cannot but wish for the defeat of its government in a reactionary war.

After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to surround their names with a certain halo for the "consolation" of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping them, while at the same time emasculating the revolutionary doctrine of its content, vulgarizing it and blunting its revolutionary edge.

Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.

A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

A political leader who desires to be useful to the revolutionary proletariat must be able to distinguish concrete cases of compromises that are inexcusable and are an expression of opportunism and treachery.