Alone Quote by Herman Gorter

Because in Russia you were able to triumph with the help of a large class of poor peasants, you represent things in such a…

— Herman Gorter

The revolution in Russia was terrible for the proletariat in the long years of its development and it is terrible now, after the victory.…

— Herman Gorter

In far Eastern Russia, there's just some towns that time has forgotten. I guess they used to maybe be industrial or something that are…

— Ewan McGregor

The Russian revolution did not occur until a generation after Marx's death. He was not involved with it, or with what came after it.…

— Allen W. Wood

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

— Karl Liebknecht

For the overthrow of the bourgeoisie, the efforts of one country are sufficient - for this we have the testimony of the history of…

— Leon Trotsky

For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical…

— Agnes Smedley

“The degeneration of the revolution in Russia does not pass from the revolution for communism to the revolution for a developed kind of capitalism,…

— Amadeo Bordiga

What happened in Russia in 1917 wasn't a revolution - it was a coup d'etat.

— Margaret Thatcher

“Thus the Russian working class had contradictory characteristics for a Marxist diagnosing its revolutionary potential. Yet the empirical evidence of the period from the…

— Sheila Fitzpatrick

All the revolutions have happened when a Fidel or Marx or Lenin or whatever, who were intellectuals, were able to get through to the…

— John Lennon

The Russians have succeeded in one thing: they have sold the world the idea that they represent socialism and the ideas of Marx,and we…

— Erich Fromm