I know what it's like to have a bunch of material that's working that you don't care about. You want to die.
There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified.
We Marxists believe that revolution will occur in other countries, as well. But it will occur at a time when it will be considered possible or necessary by revolutionaries of those countries.
Yes, the electoral struggle [in U. S. S. R. ] will be animated. It will proceed around numerous very sharp questions, namely, practical questions having first-rate significance for the people.
Only when we succeed in creating such an order under which people receive for their labor from the society not according to the quantity and quality of labor, but according to their needs, will it be possible to say that we have built up a communist society.
I have in mind repeated statements by Japanese military men containing threats against other states.
[State] finds [frontier] either with the aid of force, as in 1914, when Germany invaded Belgium in order to deal a blow against France or it "borrows" a frontier, such as Germany did with regard to Latvia, for instance, in 1918, in attempting to break through to Leningrad across Latvia.
A final word of advice: don't gloat about how well you have done.
Perseverance is one key. And do what you like.
We danced too wild, and we sang too long, and we hugged too hard, and we kissed too sweet, and howled just as loud as we wanted to howl, because by now we were all old enough to know that what looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight.
I have been keeping myself fit. I am going on holiday next week in the Mediterranean so that I can really unwind after the football season and have a rest.