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.
LEON TROTSKY
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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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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Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.
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Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
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Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
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The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
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Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.
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He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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Is it possible to fulfill this task, is it possible to achieve the definite victory of Socialism in one country without the combined efforts of the proletarians of several advanced countries? No, it is impossible.
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Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.
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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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One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old.
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The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.
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If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one’s life, without seeing oneself in the “mirror” of literature?
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