Leninism or Marxism? Organizational Questions of the Russian Social Democracy Quotes

“Let us speak plainly. Historically, the errors committed by a truly revolutionary movement are infinitely more fruitful than the infallibility of the cleverest Central Committee.”
― Rosa Luxemburg, Leninism or Marxism? Organizational Questions of the Russian Social Democracy

“The ultra-centralism asked by Lenin is full of the sterile spirit of the overseer. It is not a positive and creative spirit. Lenin's concern is not so much to make the activity of the party more fruitful as to control the party--to narrow the movement rather than to develop it, to bind rather than to unify it. . . . What is today only a phantom haunting Lenin's imagination may become reality tomorrow.”
― Rosa Luxemburg, Leninism or Marxism? Organizational Questions of the Russian Social Democracy