The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.
LEON TROTSKYThe main task of Socialism – the organization of Socialist production – remains still in the future.
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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
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Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
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The revolution has its own laws: in the period of its culmination it pushes the most highly developed, determined and far-seeing stratum of the revolutionary class to the most advanced positions.
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Is it possible to fulfill this task, is it possible to achieve the definite victory of Socialism in one country without the combined efforts of the proletarians of several advanced countries? No, it is impossible.
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The main task of Socialism – the organization of Socialist production – remains still in the future.
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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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There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.
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Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
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Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.
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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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Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
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As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man, strong and beautiful, will become master of the drifting stream of his history and will direct it towards the boundless horizons of beauty, joy and happiness!
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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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Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.
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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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