What is terrible when you seek the truth is that you find it.

- Victor Serge

It is often said that ‘the germ of all Stalinism was in Bolshevism at its beginning’. Well, I have no objection. Only, Bolshevism also contained many…

- Victor Serge

What with the political monopoly, the Cheka and the Red Army, all that now existed of the 'Commune-State' of our dreams was a theoretical myth. The w…

- Victor Serge

I believe that the formation of the Chekas was one of the gravest and most impermissible errors that the Bolshevik leaders committed in 1918 when plo…

- Victor Serge

I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic.

- Victor Serge

Early on, I learnt from the Russian intelligentsia that the only meaning of life lies in conscious participation in the making of history. The more I…

- Victor Serge

He who speaks, he who writes is above all one who speaks on behalf of all those who have no voice.

- Victor Serge

Carelessness on the part of revolutionaries has always been the best aid the police have.

- Victor Serge

Writing should be testimony to the vast flow of life through us.

- Victor Serge