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Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.

Leon Trotsky

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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Capital Catastrophe Moral Party Revolution Social Society Survive
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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Clear Oneself Quite Revolution World
Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
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Change Endurance Relative World
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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Age Expectation Man Old
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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Camp Character Revolution Service
If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one’s life, without seeing oneself in the “mirror” of literature?
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Literature Mirror Shave
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
The motive force of history is truth and not lies.
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Force History Man Motive
Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
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Death Employee Starve
Without a correct strategy the victory is impossible. But even the most correct strategy cannot give the victory under unfavorable objective conditions.
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Condition Correct Objective Victory
Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
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Average Outstanding Party
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
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
The people will have the right to elect their representatives from a list of candidates [who have been approved by the Party].
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Candidate Election People Right
A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.
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End Justification Need
The main task of Socialism – the organization of Socialist production – remains still in the future.
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Future Organization Socialism Task

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