"A lie told often enough becomes the truth."

"The state is an institution for the exploitation of the oppressed class."

"We need to go to the countryside, to the villages, to the peasants. We must explain to them that the Soviet government is the only government that frees them from exploitation."

"The proletariat needs state power, a centralised organisation of force, an organisation of violence, both to crush the resistance of the exploiters and to lead the enormous mass of the population—the …"

"It is absolutely ridiculous to assert that any given economic form can disappear before the conditions for its existence have ripened."