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Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.

Leon Trotsky

Dialectical thought is related to vulgar thinking in the same way that a motion picture is related to a still photograph. The motion picture does not outlaw the still photograph but combines a series of them according to the laws of motion.
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Law Motion Photograph Relate Thinking
He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
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Execution Victim
I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.
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Revolution Significance Strategy
From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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Patriotic People Reality
The main task of Socialism – the organization of Socialist production – remains still in the future.
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Future Organization Socialism Task
The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
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Condition Custom Depth Moral Reserve Strength
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
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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Country Possible Realization Social
In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
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Cruelty Serious Struggle Time Worst
You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.
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Interest Motivational Strategy Yourself
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
Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.
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Character Difference Ourselves
In the appendix to my History of the Russian Revolution I give a detailed and documented study of the ideas of the Bolshevik party on the October revolution. This study, I hope, will make it impossible in the future to ascribe to [Vladimir] Lenin the theory of Socialism in a single country.
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Country Detail History Hope Ideas Impossible Myself Revolution Willing
When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
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Run Togetherness Wolf
Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
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Capital Fascism One Liner Reaction
The task of the proletariat is to create a still more powerful fatherland with a far greater power of resistance, the Republican United States of Europe, as the foundation of the United States of the World.
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Creation Foundation Powerful World

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