Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
LEON TROTSKYOnce again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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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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Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.
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There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
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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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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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Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
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He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
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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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The motive force of history is truth and not lies.
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The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.
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City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me tremendously because, more than any other city, it is the fullest expression of our modern age.
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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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The theory of the permanent revolution, in contradiction to the theory of socialism in one country, was recognized by the entire Bolshevik party during the period from 1917 to 1923.
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I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.
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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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If we close our eyes to the dark sides of the workers’ State which we have helped to create, we shall never reach socialism.
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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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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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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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Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
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The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls ‘inspiration.’
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The Soviet Union needs thinking and critical friends, such as are capable not only of singing hymns in the hours of success, but of not shrinking in the hour of defeat and danger.
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In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a dictator substitutes himself for the central committee.
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You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on – into the dustbin of history!
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Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.
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