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Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and acting man, but explains him.

Leon 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 TROTSKY

Man Place Victory Woman Work
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.
LEON TROTSKY

Desire Force Freedom Government Independence Powerful Repression Struggle
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
Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
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Capital Fascism One Liner Reaction
When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
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Run Togetherness Wolf
From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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Patriotic People Reality
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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Development Law Position Revolution
I feel here that this time they have succeeded.
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Feeling Success Time
Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
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Compare Finding Lying Truth
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
Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.
LEON TROTSKY

Conscious Protect Revolution
Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one’s enemies.
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Carry Dangerous Enemy Learning
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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Decline Dictatorship Fall Industry Present Replacement
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
Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
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Change Endurance Relative World
It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil.
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Development Fake National Revolution

Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and acting man, but explains him.

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