In reality, the actual property owners stand on one side and the propertyless communist proletarians on the other. This opposition becomes keener day by day and is rapidly driving to a crisis. If, then, the theoretical representatives of the proletariat wish their literary activity to have any practical effect, they must first and foremost insist that all phrases are dropped which tend to dim the sharpness of the opposition.

Come on, comrades, bravely into the breach. Make your propaganda, continually recruit more propagandists, that's where we have to concentrate all our energies … Tomorrow … once the human soul has been rescued from the economic forces which repress it, we can don the armour of Don Quixote, we can be generous, we can be sentimental; but today, to put an end to things, we have no other care but to bitterly pursue the bitter class struggle.