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"There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolution somewhere in the world in which the workers participated in a rather important way."
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"Become the destroyer of sects - become the breaker of privileges " become the messenger of equality " become the prophet of goodness."

"It doesn't matter if most people refuse to understand nor support my efforts, not at all, it doesn't at all matter. What matters is, I am pioneering a revolution."

"Every country on Earth needs a progressive Revolution. But these revolutions must come through the Revolutions in the mind, not through Revolutions using Violence!"

"The revolution of consciousness is connected to the food revolution."

"We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society founded upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution. The Revolution is in the individual spirit, or it is nowhere. It is for all, or it is nothing. If it is seen as having any end, it will never truly begin."

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

"In every nation's history time comes to behave like wild horses, to refuse any kind of authority which tries to eliminate your freedom!"

"This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody!"

"Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations."

"The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past."
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"There are no conditions in which we subordinate the interests of the class as a whole to the interests of any sect, any chapel, any separate organization."

"Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which is to say, workers' councils, people's councils, call them what you want, popular committees."

"For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new xperiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism."

"Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries."

"On the contrary, history generally confirms that the more conscious and the better you are organized in vanguard organizations, the more constructively you operate in the mass organizations of the working class."

"You need a vanguard organization in order to overcome the dangerous potential brought about by the uneven development of class militancy and class consciousness."

"The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union consciousness dominates the working class. I would call it elementary class consciousness of the working class."
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