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Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.

Leon Trotsky

The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.
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State Statute Stupidity Vulgar
Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
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Capital Fascism One Liner Reaction
There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.
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Accident Democracy Limitation Method Threat
Revolutionary realism tries to draw the maximum advantage from every situation – that is what makes it revolutionary – but at the same time it does not permit us to set ourselves fantastic aims – that is what makes it realistic.
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Advantage Draw Ourselves Revolution Time Try
In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.
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Country Employer Obedience Principle State
In France, the leader of Jacobinism perished on the guillotine; with us, the change of leadership was achieved by means of arrest and banishment. The technique of the process is gentler, but its essence is the same.
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Banishment Essence Leadership Name
Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
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Each Other Harmony Social
City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me tremendously because, more than any other city, it is the fullest expression of our modern age.
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Age Expression Fantasy Modern Ourselves Success Triumph
Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
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Master Technique
Dialectical thought is related to vulgar thinking in the same way that a motion picture is related to a still photograph. The motion picture does not outlaw the still photograph but combines a series of them according to the laws of motion.
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Law Motion Photograph Relate Thinking
Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain – at least in a poor country like Russia – and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
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Country Effect Finding Man Production Vehicle
Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
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Average Outstanding Party
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
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End Justification Philosophy
Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
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Government Ignorance Religion Tragedy
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
It is quite clear that the German and Chinese revolutions in case of victory would have changed the face of Europe and Asia, and perhaps of the whole world.
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Clear Oneself Quite Revolution World

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