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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

Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
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Condition Distance Organization Point Violence
Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
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Capital Fascism One Liner Reaction
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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Flow Forever Fundamental Motion
The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.
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State Statute Stupidity Vulgar
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

Guide History Leadership Position Time
Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one’s enemies.
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Carry Dangerous Enemy Learning
In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
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Cruelty Serious Struggle Time Worst
Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.
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Conscious Protect Revolution
Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
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Master Technique
‎The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave.
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Betrayal Grave Serve Work
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
Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
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Change Endurance Relative World
I feel here that this time they have succeeded.
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Feeling Success Time
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
If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.
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Convince Head Yourself
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

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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