http://www.massline.info/mlms/mlch12.htm Citat din conversația avută cu Lenin He [Lenin] said to me, "Do you know the real meaning of this war?"
"What is it?" I asked.
"It is obvious," he replied. "One slaveholder, Germany, who owns 100 slaves, is fighting another slaveholder, England, who owns 200 slaves, for a 'fairer' distribution of the slaves."
"How can you expect to foster hatred of this war," I asked at this point, "if you are not in principle against all wars? I thought that as a Bolshevik you were really a radical thinker and refused to make any compromise with the idea of war. But by recognizing the validity of some wars, you open the doors for every opportunity. Each group can find some justification of the particular war of which it approves. I see that we young people can only count on ourselves...."
"Your determination to rely on yourselves," Lenin finally replied, "is very important. Every man must rely on himself. Yet he should also listen to what informed people have to say. I don't know how radical you are, or how radical I am. I am certainly not radical enough. One can never be radical enough; that is, one must always try to be as radical as reality itself."