Leon Trotsky on pollution
Leon Trotsky92 quotes“Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.”
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Only in the Fall of 1924 did [Joseph] Stalin discover that it is especially Russia, as distinguished from other countries, which can by its own forces build up a socialist society.
Leon TrotskyLeon Trotsky From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
Leon TrotskyLeon Trotsky Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.
Leon TrotskyLeon Trotsky Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
Leon TrotskyLeon Trotsky If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
Leon TrotskyLeon Trotsky When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
Leon TrotskyLeon Trotsky Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
Leon TrotskyLeon Trotsky He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
Leon TrotskyLeon Trotsky In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.
Leon TrotskyLeon Trotsky 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.
Leon TrotskyLeon Trotsky Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory!
Leon TrotskyLeon Trotsky As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness of human life” remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains.
Leon TrotskyLeon Trotsky 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 TrotskyLeon Trotsky Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
Leon TrotskyLeon Trotsky It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil.
Leon TrotskyLeon Trotsky 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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