Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
LEON TROTSKYAll the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe. The only party that will survive is the party of the world socialist revolution.
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Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
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The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
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Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
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Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.
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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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One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old.
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It is quite clear that the German and Chinese revolutions in case of victory would have changed the face of Europe and Asia, and perhaps of the whole world.
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Nowhere else did repressions, purges, suppressions, and all other kinds of bureaucratic hooliganism in general acquire such horrifying scope as in Ukraine, in the struggle against powerful forces concealed in the Ukrainian masses that desired more freedom and independence.
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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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The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave.
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The motive force of history is truth and not lies.
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Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.
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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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In 1917 there was not a single Bolshevik who considered possible the realization of a socialist society in a single country, and least of all in Russia.
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The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.
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