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Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.

Leon Trotsky

Look back at history – those who guided the revolution in the time of its culmination never kept their leading positions long after the turning point.
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Guide History Leadership Position Time
Capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.
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Crisis Exhale Human Inhale Live
The task of the proletariat is to create a still more powerful fatherland with a far greater power of resistance, the Republican United States of Europe, as the foundation of the United States of the World.
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Creation Foundation Powerful World
The revolution has its own laws: in the period of its culmination it pushes the most highly developed, determined and far-seeing stratum of the revolutionary class to the most advanced positions.
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Development Law Position Revolution
Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory!
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Man Place Victory Woman Work
The main task of Socialism – the organization of Socialist production – remains still in the future.
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Future Organization Socialism Task
Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
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Average Outstanding Party
The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces – in nature, in society, in man himself.
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Aspect Blind Force History Humanity Man Society Summary
If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
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Discussion Greatness Mistake Time
Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
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Fascism Religion
In spite of the existence of the Soviet Union, however, the proletarian revolution during the past years has not recorded a victory in any other country.
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Country Existence Record Revolution
From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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Patriotic People Reality
The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality which consists of eternal motion.
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Flow Forever Fundamental Motion
Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
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Art Law
Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
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Master Technique
Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
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Each Other Harmony Social

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