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Look back at history – those who guided the revolution in the time of its culmination never kept their leading positions long after the turning point.

Leon Trotsky

Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
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Capital Fascism One Liner Reaction
The 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.
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Decline Dictatorship Fall Industry Present Replacement
Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.
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Average Outstanding Party
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
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
Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.
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Character Difference Ourselves
Capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.
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Crisis Exhale Human Inhale Live
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
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.
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Country Existence Record Revolution
Without a correct strategy the victory is impossible. But even the most correct strategy cannot give the victory under unfavorable objective conditions.
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Condition Correct Objective Victory
Revolutions are always verbose.
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One Liner Revolution
The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
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Condition Custom Depth Moral Reserve Strength
Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
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Government Ignorance Religion Tragedy
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
Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
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Change Endurance Relative World
Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
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Master Technique

Look back at history – those who guided the revolution in the time of its culmination never kept their leading positions long after the turning point.

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