Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory!
LEON TROTSKYIn the appendix to my History of the Russian Revolution I give a detailed and documented study of the ideas of the Bolshevik party on the October revolution. This study, I hope, will make it impossible in the future to ascribe to [Vladimir] Lenin the theory of Socialism in a single country.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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The motive force of history is truth and not lies.
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Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
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Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.
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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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Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
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The main task of Socialism – the organization of Socialist production – remains still in the future.
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Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.
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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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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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I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.
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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
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Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
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The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.
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From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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