It is not the business of socialists to help the younger and stronger robbers. Socialists must take advantage of the struggle between the robbers to … - Vladimir Lenin

There can be no real and effective “freedom” in a society based on the power of money, in a society in which the masses of working people live in poverty and the handful of rich live like parasites. Are you free in relation to your bourgeois publisher, Mr. Writer, in relation to your bourgeois public, which demands that you provide it with pornography in frames and paintings, and prostitution as a “supplement” to “sacred” scenic art? This absolute freedom is a bourgeois or an anarchist phrase (since, as a world outlook, anarchism is bourgeois philosophy turned inside out). One cannot live in society and be free from society. The freedom of the bourgeois writer, artist or actress is simply masked (or hypocritically masked) dependence on the money-bag, on corruption, on prostitution.

What the Soviet Constitution gives us no other state has been able to give in two hundred years.

The danger is great. The enemy is far stronger than we are economically, just as yesterday he was far stronger than we were militarily.