Unquestioning submission to a single will is absolutely necessary for the success of labour processes that are based on large-scale machine industry: today the Revolution demands, in the interests of socialism, that the masses unquestioningly obey the single will of the leaders of the labour process.
Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none.
I went to Russia a Communist; but contact with those who have no doubts has intensified a thousandfold my own doubts, not as to Communism in itself, but as to the wisdom of holding a creed so firmly that for its sake men are willing to inflict widespread misery.
World communism is like malignant parasite which feeds only on diseased tissue.