"The historical ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind nature, of the conscious over the unconscious, of the rational over the …"

"The end result of the revolution can only be the dictatorship of the proletariat."

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

"The revolution is a festival of the oppressed."

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