„We Marxist communists are profoundly opposed to the anarchist doctrine. This doctrine is erroneous“

— Leon Trotsky
„But the doctrine of compensation is not the doctrine of indifferency.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„I will say in a few words why the anarchist doctrine is wrong. The anarchists say that the working class does not need a government: what is needs is to organize production. Government, they say, is a bourgeois invention, a bourgeois machine of compulsion, and the working class does not need to take governmental power. This is wrong from beginning to end.“
— Leon Trotsky