Ought to have a universal compulsory force to move and arrange each part in the manner best suited to the whole. Just as nature gives each man an absolute power over all his members, the social compact gives the body politic an absolute power over all its members. " "We grant that each person alienates, by the social compact, only that portion of his power, his goods, and liberty whose use is of consequence to the community; but we must also grant that only the sovereign is the judge of what is of consequence.
Mikhail Kalinin
The national question is purely a peasant question. . . the best way to eliminate nationality is a massive factory with thousands of workers. . . , which like a millstone grinds up all nationalities and forges a new nationality. This nationality is the universal proletariat.
