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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
Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory!
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Man Place Victory Woman Work
Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
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Art Law
When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
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Run Togetherness Wolf
The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls ‘inspiration.’
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Call Creativity Inspirational Union
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
Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
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Change Endurance Relative World
The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against imperialism. A ‘neutral’ position is tantamount to support of imperialism.
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Colonial Imperialism Struggle Support War
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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Clear Oneself Quite Revolution World
The motive force of history is truth and not lies.
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Force History Man Motive
He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
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Execution Victim
Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.
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Character Difference Ourselves
The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.
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History Powerful Revenge Secretary
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.
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Flow Forever Fundamental Motion
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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Accomplishment Act Explanation Forget Man Name Revolution
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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