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.
Sometimes - history needs a push.
For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.
To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong.
Lenin, the greatest man of action in our century and at the same time the most selfless.
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.