Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its power over nature. - Vladimir Lenin

No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself.

In the history of modern socialism this is a phenomenon, that the strife of the various trends within the socialist movement has from national become international.

The state is the product and the manifestation of the irreconcilability class antagonisms. The state arises when, where and to the extent that class antagonisms cannot be objectively reconciled. And, conversely, the existence of the state proves that the class antagonisms are irreconcilable.