In our system of universal military training, barrack life must be reduced to a minimum, so that ultimately the Red barracks may completely disappear. - Nikolai Bukharin

History moves in contradictions. The skeleton of historic existence, the economic structure of society, also develops in contradictions. Forms eternally follow forms. Everything has only a passing being. The dynamic force of life creates the new over and over again — such is the law inherent in reality.

The great majority of crimes committed in bourgeois society are either direct infringements of property rights or are indirectly connected with property.

In the old law-courts, the class minority of exploiters passed judgement upon the working majority. The law-courts of the proletarian dictatorship are places where the working majority passes judgement upon the exploiting minority.