The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.
LEON TROTSKYOnly in the Fall of 1924 did [Joseph] Stalin discover that it is especially Russia, as distinguished from other countries, which can by its own forces build up a socialist society.
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Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.
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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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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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The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
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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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The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.
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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
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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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In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
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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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The main task of Socialism – the organization of Socialist production – remains still in the future.
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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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Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
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The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls ‘inspiration.’
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As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man, strong and beautiful, will become master of the drifting stream of his history and will direct it towards the boundless horizons of beauty, joy and happiness!
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Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
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Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
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Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
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Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
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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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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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Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
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The usages and methods of warfare are thus determined by changing circumstances and, therefore, they themselves can in nowise be eternal.
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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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From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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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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