It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.

For the complete extinction of the state, complete Communism is necessary.

Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.

A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another.

We are not utopians, we do not “dream” of dispensing at once with all administration, with all subordination. These anarchist dreams, based upon incomprehension of the tasks of the proletarian dictatorship, are totally alien to Marxism, and, as a matter of fact, serve only to postpone the socialist revolution until people are different. No, we want the socialist revolution with people as they are now, with people who cannot dispense with subordination, control, and "foremen and accountants".

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.