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.
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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The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
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All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe. The only party that will survive is the party of the world socialist revolution.
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Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.
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It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil.
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The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave.
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The main task of Socialism – the organization of Socialist production – remains still in the future.
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Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
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Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
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Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
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I feel here that this time they have succeeded.
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Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
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In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
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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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From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
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