Before A Revolution Happens, It Is Perceived

Self-criticism, Cruel, Unsparing Criticism That Goes To The Very Root Of The Evil, Is Life And Breath For The Proletarian Movement.

Without General Elections, Without Unrestricted Freedom Of Press And Assembly, Without A Free Struggle Of Opinion, Life Dies Out In Every Public Institution, Becomes A Mere Semblance Of Life, In Which Only The Bureaucracy Remains As The Active Element. Public Life Gradually Falls Asleep, A Few Dozen Party Leaders Of Inexhaustible Energy And Boundless Experience Direct And Rule. Such Conditions Must Inevitably Cause A Brutalization Of Public Life: Attempted Assassinations, Shootings Of Hostages, Etc.

Marxism Must Abhor Nothing So Much As The Possibility That It Becomes Congealed In Its Current Form. It Is At Its Best When Butting Heads In Self-criticism, And In Historical Thunder And Lightning, It Retains Its Strength.

Freedom For Supporters Of The Government Only, For Members Of One Party Only No Matter How Big Its Membership May Be Is No Freedom At All. Freedom Is Always Freedom For The Man Who Thinks Differently.

Freedom Is Always And Exclusively Freedom For The One Who Thinks Differently.