"It is not difficult to be a revolutionary when revolution has already broken out and is in spate, when all people are joining the revolution ... It is far more difficult - and far more precious - to be a revolutionary when the conditions for direct, open, really mass and really revolutionary struggle do not yet exist, ... To be able to seek, find and correctly determine the specific path or the particular turn of events that will lead the masses to the real, decisive and final revolutionary struggle - such is the main objective of communism in Western Europe and in America today"

- Left-Wing: Communism, An Infantile Disorder, Lenin, 1920.