Victor Serge Quotes
- It is often said that ‘the germ of all Stalinism was in Bolshevism at its beginning’. Well, I have no objection. Only, Bolshevism also contained…
- What with the political monopoly, the Cheka and the Red Army, all that now existed of the 'Commune-State' of our dreams was a theoretical myth.…
- What is terrible when you seek the truth, is that you find it. You find it, and then you are no longer free to follow…
- I believe that the formation of the Chekas was one of the gravest and most impermissible errors that the Bolshevik leaders committed in 1918 when…
- I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic.
- what is terrible when you seek the truth is that you find it..
- Carelessness on the part of revolutionaries has always been the best aid the police have.
- Early on, I learnt from the Russian intelligentsia that the only meaning of life lies in conscious participation in the making of history. The more…