It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil.
LEON TROTSKYFascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
More Leon Trotsky Quotes
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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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Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
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The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.
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The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.
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The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
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With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in “giving a hiding” to the classes that were previously supreme, before forcing them to recognize the new order and to submit to it.
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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.
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Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
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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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From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.
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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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I feel here that this time they have succeeded.
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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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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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