One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

Between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat.

The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas.

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

One might as well legalise sodomy as recognise the Bolsheviks.

Everyone can see how communism rots the soul of a nation. How it makes it abject in peace and proves it abominable in war.