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"Our Soviet society is socialist because private ownership of factories, plants, land, banks and means of transportation has been abolished in our country, and replaced by public ownership."
"It doesnt matter how many people vote, only who counts them."
"The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class."
"What would happen if capital succeeded in smashing the Republic of Soviets? There would set in an era of the blackest reaction in all the capitalist and colonial countries, the working class and the oppressed peoples would be seized by the throat, the positions of international communism would be lost."
"Each country, if it so desires, will make its own revolution. And if no such desire exists, no revolution will occur."
"This war is not as in the past; whoever occupies a territory also imposes on it his own social system. Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach. It cannot be otherwise. If now there is not a communist government in Paris, this is only because Russia has no an army which can reach Paris in 1945."
"Only when we succeed in creating such an order under which people receive for their labor from the society not according to the quantity and quality of labor, but according to their needs, will it be possible to say that we have built up a communist society."
"Leninism is Marxism of the era of imperialism and the proletarian revolution."
"To slacken the tempo...would mean falling behind. And those who fall behind get beaten."
"It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" the unemployed can have who go hungry and cannot find utilization of their labor."
"Of course, in order to build something new, one has to economize, accumulate means, temporarily limit one's requirements, borrow from others. If you want to build a new house, you save money temporarily and limit your requirements, otherwise you might not build your house."
"[State] finds [frontier] either with the aid of force, as in 1914, when Germany invaded Belgium in order to deal a blow against France or it "borrows" a frontier, such as Germany did with regard to Latvia, for instance, in 1918, in attempting to break through to Leningrad across Latvia."
"I fail to see what dangers surrounding states can see in the ideas of the Soviet people if these states are really firmly seated in their saddles."
"Our society consists exclusively of free working people of cities and villages, workers, peasants, intelligentsia. Each of these strata may have its special interests and express them in numerous existing organizations."
"In case Japan ventures to attack the Mongolian People's Republic, seeking to destroy its independence, we will have to assist the Mongolian People's Republic."
"Anti-Semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism."
"Capitalism in its imperialistic stage is a system which regards war as a legitimate method for solution of international disputes - a method which is legitimate in fact if not legally so."
"No revolution can be made with silk gloves."
"Having consolidated its power, and taking the lead of the peasantry, the proletariat of the victorious country can and must build a socialist society."
"Admittedly communism has not been achieved in Russia. State socialism has been built."