Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.
LEON TROTSKYI emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.
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Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
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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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Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
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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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One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old.
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In 1917 there was not a single Bolshevik who considered possible the realization of a socialist society in a single country, and least of all in Russia.
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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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The revolution has its own laws: in the period of its culmination it pushes the most highly developed, determined and far-seeing stratum of the revolutionary class to the most advanced positions.
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I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.
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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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Revolutions are always verbose.
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The main task of Socialism – the organization of Socialist production – remains still in the future.
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The theory of the permanent revolution, in contradiction to the theory of socialism in one country, was recognized by the entire Bolshevik party during the period from 1917 to 1923.
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The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls ‘inspiration.’
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