Democracy Is Indispensable To Socialism.

To Picture World History As Advancing Smoothly And Steadily Without Sometimes Taking Gigantic Strides Backward Is Undialectical, Unscientific And Theoretically Wrong.

If Socialism Can Only Be Realized When The Intellectual Development Of All The People Permits It, Then We Shall Not See Socialism For At Least Five Hundred Years.

Learning Is Never Done Without Errors And Defeat.

Only Struggle Educates The Exploited Class. Only Struggle Discloses To It The Magnitude Of Its Own Power, Widens Its Horizon, Enhances Its Abilities, Clarifies Its Mind, Forges Its Will.

I Come To The Categorical Conclusion That Precisely At This Moment We Must Give Battle To The Black Hundred Clergy In The Most Decisive And Merciless Manner And Crush Its Resistance With Such Brutality That It Will Not Forget It For Decades To Come. The Greater The Number Of Representatives Of The Reactionary Clergy And Reactionary Bourgeoisie We Succeed In Executing For This Reason, The Better.