The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the…

The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.

— Karl Liebknecht

And all this effort, all this loss of comradeship, all this prostitution of idealism and manhood, to assist the capitalists of this country to…

— Harry Pollitt

“general staff and the divisions there exists usually only a single radio wire; between the divisions and the regiments and battalions, there are only…

— Christine Alexander

“It is there, in the final moments, for people whose farthest horizon has always been tomorrow, that one comprehends the profound tragedy circumscribing the…

— Ernesto Guevara

At the crash of economic collapse of which the rumblings can already be heard, the sleeping soldiers of the proletariat will awake as at…

— Karl Liebknecht

This republic represents the greatest basis for that universal socialist order, the creation of which is at the present time the historic task of…

— Karl Liebknecht

This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world.

— H. L. Mencken

“To the Jacobins of this epoch [the French Revolution], as well as to those of our times, this popular entity constitutes a superior personality…

— Gustave Le Bon

My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood… Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any…

— Che Guevara

“...the working classes—that motor of social transformation which Marx increasingly stipulated for the role of the proletariat; the dispossessed and alienated revolutionary vehicle of…

— J. P. Nettl

The book that really, really shaped my politics and has forever is Arthur Koestler's "Darkness at Noon," which is a novel based on terrible…

— Nat Hentoff

The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat.

— Karl Marx

“The Italian philosopher Paolo Virno says we have moved from having a “proletariat”—a solid block of manual workers with jobs—to a “precariat,” a shifting…

— Johann Hari

The dictatorship of the proletariat and the leadership of the Marxist-Leninist party are indispensable conditions for the triumph of the Socialist revolution and the…

— Nikita Khrushchev

Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by…

— Vladimir Lenin