"The old society does not perish until it has exhausted all its creative possibilities."

"Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into a state of despair and cynicism unless you have an ideal to cling to."

"The fate of the Russian Revolution depends entirely upon the course of the world revolution."

"The bureaucracy in the Soviet Union is not a class, but a parasitic growth on the workers' state."

"The October Revolution was a democratic revolution, carried out by the working class."