You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on – into the dustbin of history!
LEON TROTSKYOld age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
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Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
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If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
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The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against imperialism. A ‘neutral’ position is tantamount to support of imperialism.
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With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in “giving a hiding” to the classes that were previously supreme, before forcing them to recognize the new order and to submit to it.
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The fall of the present bureaucratic dictatorship [in the Soviet Union], if it were not replaced by a new socialist power, would thus mean a return to capitalist relations with a catastrophic decline of industry and culture.
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All 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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I feel here that this time they have succeeded.
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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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The main task of Socialism – the organization of Socialist production – remains still in the future.
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I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.
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Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
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City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me tremendously because, more than any other city, it is the fullest expression of our modern age.
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Root out the counter revolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps… Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.
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England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.
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