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Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence, and enjoy it to the full.

Leon Trotsky

I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.
LEON TROTSKY

Revolution Significance Strategy
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
From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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Patriotic People Reality
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!
LEON TROTSKY

History Individual Isolate Yourself
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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Decline Dictatorship Fall Industry Present Replacement
Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
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Average Outstanding Party
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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Country Fulfill Impossible Possible Task
The motive force of history is truth and not lies.
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Force History Man Motive
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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Particular Possible Quite Violence
There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
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Absolute Circumstance Peace Rule War
Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
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Master Technique
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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Committee Himself Organization Party Politics
Capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.
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Crisis Exhale Human Inhale Live
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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Easy Frustration Greatness Life Misery Personal Raise Weakness
Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.
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Conscious Protect Revolution
The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
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Communist Form Maintain Violence

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