Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well.
The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them.
Socialist revolution aims at liberating the productive forces. The changeover from individual to socialist, collective ownership in agriculture and handicrafts and from capitalist to socialist ownership in private industry and commerce is bound to bring about a tremendous liberation of the productive forces. Thus, the social conditions are being created for a tremendous expansion of industrial and agricultural production.