“it is essential for revolution that the exploiters should not be able to live and rule in the old way. Only when the ‘lower classes’ do not want the old way, and when the ‘upper classes’ cannot carry on in the old way—only then can revolution triumph.”

“it is not enough for revolution that the exploited and oppressed masses should understand the impossibility of living in the old way and demand changes”

“History has now confronted us with an immediate task which is the most revolutionary of all the immediate tasks confronting the proletariat of any country.”