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There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.

Leon Trotsky

A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.
LEON TROTSKY

End Justification Need
Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
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Fascism Religion
Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain – at least in a poor country like Russia – and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
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Country Effect Finding Man Production Vehicle
Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.
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Abuse Privilege Right Stupidity
‎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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Betrayal Grave Serve Work
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
I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.
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Revolution Significance Strategy
Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
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Capital Fascism One Liner Reaction
Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
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Compare Finding Lying Truth
Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
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Ideas Mindset Secure
The motive force of history is truth and not lies.
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Force History Man Motive
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
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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Desire Force Freedom Government Independence Powerful Repression Struggle
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
There is no justice in bureaucracy for the individual, for bureaucracy caters only to itself. One cannot practice the same bureaucracy as one is fighting against.
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Fight Government Individual Justice Practice
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
LEON TROTSKY

End Justification Philosophy

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