When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
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.
If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.