Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations..

Marxism must abhor nothing so much as the possibility that it becomes congealed in its current form. It is at its best when butting heads in self-cri….

We stand todaybefore the awful proposition: either the triumph of imperialism and the destruction of all culture, and, as in ancient Rome, depopulati….

What do you want with these special Jewish pains? I feel as close to the wretched victims of the rubber plantations in Putamayo and the blacks of Afr….

Self-criticism, cruel, unsparing criticism that goes to the very root of the evil, is life and breath for the proletarian movement..

The clergy, no less than the capitalist class, lives on the backs of the people, profits from the degradation, the ignorance and the oppression of th….

The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the l….

The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process..

The victory of socialism will not descend like fate from heaven..

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains..

The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles..

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat..

The high stage of world-industrial development in capitalistic production finds expression in the extraordinary technical development and destructive….

The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built..

Capitalism, as a result of its own inner contradictions, moves toward a point when it will be unbalanced, when it will simply become impossible..

Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual….

Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public inst….

Life is singing also in the sand crunching under the slow and heavy steps of the guards, when we know how to listen to it..

Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters..

We will be victorious if we have not forgotten how to learn..

Those who don't move don't notice their chains..