Capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.
LEON TROTSKYIn 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.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
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With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in “giving a hiding” to the classes that were previously supreme, before forcing them to recognize the new order and to submit to it.
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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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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
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Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
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Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
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The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.
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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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If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.
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Revolutions are always verbose.
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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.
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Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
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As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness of human life” remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains.
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Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
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