Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
LEON TROTSKYThe struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against imperialism. A ‘neutral’ position is tantamount to support of imperialism.
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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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The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against imperialism. A ‘neutral’ position is tantamount to support of imperialism.
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When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
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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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Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
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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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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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He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
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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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It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil.
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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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Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
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The usages and methods of warfare are thus determined by changing circumstances and, therefore, they themselves can in nowise be eternal.
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The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.
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