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Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.

Leon Trotsky

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces – in nature, in society, in man himself.
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Aspect Blind Force History Humanity Man Society Summary
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
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End Justification Philosophy
Root out the counter revolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps… Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.
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Camp Character Revolution Service
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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Destiny Entrance Force History Revolution Rule
I feel here that this time they have succeeded.
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Feeling Success Time
He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
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Execution Victim
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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Age Expectation Man Old
The main task of Socialism – the organization of Socialist production – remains still in the future.
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Future Organization Socialism Task
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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Fight Government Individual Justice Practice
The people will have the right to elect their representatives from a list of candidates [who have been approved by the Party].
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Candidate Election People Right
If we close our eyes to the dark sides of the workers’ State which we have helped to create, we shall never reach socialism.
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Eyes Reach Socialism State
Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
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Ourselves Planet Pollution
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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Humiliation Language Oneself People Swear
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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Capital Catastrophe Moral Party Revolution Social Society Survive
Only 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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Country Discover Force Socialist Society
I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.
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Revolution Significance Strategy

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