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.
LEON TROTSKY
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.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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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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Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.
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Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.
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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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In France, the leader of Jacobinism perished on the guillotine; with us, the change of leadership was achieved by means of arrest and banishment. The technique of the process is gentler, but its essence is the same.
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Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.
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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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Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.
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Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
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Capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.
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England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.
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Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
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With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in “giving a hiding” to the classes that were previously supreme, before forcing them to recognize the new order and to submit to it.
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In spite of the existence of the Soviet Union, however, the proletarian revolution during the past years has not recorded a victory in any other country.
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He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
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Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
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