In spite of the existence of the Soviet Union, however, the proletarian revolution during the past years has not recorded a victory in any other country.
LEON TROTSKYThe 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.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.
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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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The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.
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The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.
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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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Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
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Revolutions are always verbose.
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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
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The motive force of history is truth and not lies.
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Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.
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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
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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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Capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.
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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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