Let us not forget that we want to make the individual, and not the collectivity, the supreme value.

seeing that a defeat would run the risk of destroying, for an indefinite period, everything which lends value to human life in our eyes, it is obvious that we must struggle by every means which seems to us to have some chance of proving effective.

the ideal of a society governed in the economic and political sphere by co-operation between the workers now inspires scarcely a single mass movement,

The ability to judge freely is becoming rarer and rarer, more especially in intellectual circles,

The speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it.

He was not at all concerned with seeing clearly into his own thought, but solely with maintaining intact the philosophical traditions on which the Party lived. Such a method of thought is not that of a free man.

The entire works of Marx are permeated with a spirit incompatible with the vulgar materialism of Engels and Lenin. He never regards man as being a mere part of nature, but always as being at the same time, owing to the fact that he exercises a free activity, an antagonistic term vis-à-vis nature.

inspired by that force of mind and spirit that is found only among the proletariat,

the fundamental impotence of a spontaneous movement when it comes to fighting against organized forces of repression. August 1914 marked the bankruptcy of proletarian mass organizations, both on the political and the trade-union planes, within the framework of the system.